Color

#a899ad

#a899ad
hex#a899ad
rgbrgb(168, 153, 173)
hslhsl(285, 11%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.702 0.033 317.7)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3412

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ead99

#9e99ad · #ad99a8

#ada899 · #99ada8

Split-complementary

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#a8ad99 · #99ad9e

#ad9e99 · #9ead99 · #99a8ad

Contrast

#a899ad as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.68:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #846f8b as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #615266 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.14:1)
Aaon black
7.82:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a899ad as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a899ad
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 #a899ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a899ad-bc9fc1-afcb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md