Color

#a69896

#a69896
hex#a69896
rgbrgb(166, 152, 150)
hslhsl(7, 8%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.691 0.017 27.3)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3277

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96a4a6

#a6969c · #a6a096

#96a698 · #9896a6

Split-complementary

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#96a6a0 · #969ca6

#9ca696 · #96a4a6 · #a096a6

Contrast

#a69896 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.78:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #81706e as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #635654 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.55:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a69896 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#a69896 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a69896
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a69896 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a69896-c4a59c-62cba4-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md