Color

#a89999

#a89999
hex#a89999
rgbrgb(168, 153, 153)
hslhsl(0, 8%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.696 0.018 17.6)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3341

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99a8a8

#a899a1 · #a8a199

#99a899 · #9999a8

Split-complementary

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#99a8a1 · #99a1a8

#a1a899 · #99a8a8 · #a199a8

Contrast

#a89999 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.73:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #847171 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #635454 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.68:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a89999 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

#a89999 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a89999
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 #a89999 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a89999-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md