Color

#a8998a

#a8998a
hex#a8998a
rgbrgb(168, 153, 138)
hslhsl(30, 15%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.692 0.028 67.3)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.3294

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8a99a8

#a88a8a · #a8a88a

#8aa899 · #998aa8

Split-complementary

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#8aa8a8 · #8a8aa8

#8aa88a · #8a99a8 · #a88aa8

Contrast

#a8998a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #847362 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #615448 as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.59:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8998a 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

#a8998a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8998a
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 #a8998a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8998a-c4b59c-62c9cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md