Color

#a79b95

#a79b95
hex#a79b95
rgbrgb(167, 155, 149)
hslhsl(20, 9%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.698 0.017 48.5)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3383

Colors that go with #a79b95

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #a79b95

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#95a1a7

#a79598 · #a7a495

#95a79b · #9b95a7

Split-complementary

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#95a7a4 · #9598a7

#98a795 · #95a1a7 · #a495a7

Contrast

#a79b95 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.7:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #80726b as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #615751 as the text (7.02:1)
  • 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 #a79b95 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#a79b95 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a79b95
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 #a79b95 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79b95-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md