Color

#a79fa8

#a79fa8
hex#a79fa8
rgbrgb(167, 159, 168)
hslhsl(293, 5%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.712 0.016 322.4)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3584

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a0a89f

#a29fa8 · #a89fa4

#a8a79f · #9fa8a7

Split-complementary

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#a4a89f · #9fa8a2

#a8a29f · #a0a89f · #9fa4a8

Contrast

#a79fa8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.57:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c727e as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #5d555e as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.17:1)
Aaon black
8.17:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79fa8 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

#a79fa8 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a79fa8
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 #a79fa8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79fa8-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md