Color

#a79a9f

#a79a9f
hex#a79a9f
rgbrgb(167, 154, 159)
hslhsl(337, 7%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.699 0.017 352.2)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3383

Colors that go with #a79a9f

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 #a79a9f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9aa7a2

#a79aa6 · #a79c9a

#9fa79a · #9a9fa7

Split-complementary

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#9aa79c · #9aa6a7

#a6a79a · #9aa7a2 · #9c9aa7

Contrast

#a79a9f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.7:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #837278 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #62555a as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.77:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79a9f 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

#a79a9f reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a79a9f
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 #a79a9f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79a9f-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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