Color

#a89eae

#a89eae
hex#a89eae
rgbrgb(168, 158, 174)
hslhsl(278, 9%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.713 0.025 313.1)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3583

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a4ae9e

#a09eae · #ae9eac

#aea89e · #9eaea8

Split-complementary

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#acae9e · #9eaea0

#aea09e · #a4ae9e · #9eacae

Contrast

#a89eae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.57:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d6f85 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5464 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
8.17:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a89eae 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

#a89eae reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a89eae
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 #a89eae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a89eae-ba9cc4-bbcb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md