Color

#a89994

#a89994
hex#a89994
rgbrgb(168, 153, 148)
hslhsl(15, 10%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.695 0.019 39.4)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3325

Colors that go with #a89994

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 #a89994

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#94a3a8

#a89499 · #a8a394

#94a899 · #9994a8

Split-complementary

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#94a8a3 · #9499a8

#99a894 · #94a3a8 · #a394a8

Contrast

#a89994 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #84726c as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #625550 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.65:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a89994 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

#a89994 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a89994
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 #a89994 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a89994-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md