Color

#a89e99

#a89e99
hex#a89e99
rgbrgb(168, 158, 153)
hslhsl(20, 8%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.706 0.014 48.5)
Closest name: Elephant in the Room (#a8a9a8)Relative luminance 0.3508

Colors that go with #a89e99

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #a89e99

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99a3a8

#a8999c · #a8a699

#99a89e · #9e99a8

Split-complementary

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#99a8a6 · #999ca8

#9ca899 · #99a3a8 · #a699a8

Contrast

#a89e99 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f726c as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #605752 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.02:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a89e99 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

#a89e99 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a89e99
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 #a89e99 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a89e99-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md