Color

#a89498

#a89498
hex#a89498
rgbrgb(168, 148, 152)
hslhsl(348, 10%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.685 0.024 4.1)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3177

Colors that go with #a89498

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 #a89498

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#94a8a4

#a894a2 · #a89a94

#98a894 · #9498a8

Split-complementary

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#94a89a · #94a2a8

#a2a894 · #94a8a4 · #9a94a8

Contrast

#a89498 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #897075 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #655356 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.35:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a89498 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

#a89498 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a89498
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 #a89498 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a89498-c49c9f-62cb83-2d231f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md