Color

#a899a8

#a899a8
hex#a899a8
rgbrgb(168, 153, 168)
hslhsl(300, 8%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.701 0.028 325.9)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3393

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99a899

#a199a8 · #a899a1

#a8a899 · #99a8a8

Split-complementary

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#a1a899 · #99a8a1

#a8a199 · #99a899 · #99a1a8

Contrast

#a899a8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.7:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #816e81 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #635463 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.79:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a899a8 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

#a899a8 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a899a8
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 #a899a8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a899a8-c19fbd-95cb62-2d1f27-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md