Color

#a79599

#a79599
hex#a79599
rgbrgb(167, 149, 153)
hslhsl(347, 9%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.687 0.022 2.6)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3201

Colors that go with #a79599

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #a79599

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#95a7a3

#a795a2 · #a79a95

#99a795 · #9599a7

Split-complementary

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#95a79a · #95a2a7

#a2a795 · #95a7a3 · #9a95a7

Contrast

#a79599 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.84:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #856f74 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #645457 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.4:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79599 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

#a79599 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a79599
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

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

analyze #a79599 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79599-c49ca0-62cb82-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md