Color

#a8a099

#a8a099
hex#a8a099
rgbrgb(168, 160, 153)
hslhsl(28, 8%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.71 0.014 63.8)
Closest name: Elephant in the Room (#a8a9a8)Relative luminance 0.3577

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99a1a8

#a8999a · #a8a899

#99a8a0 · #a099a8

Split-complementary

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#99a8a8 · #999aa8

#9aa899 · #99a1a8 · #a899a8

Contrast

#a8a099 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.58:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f756c as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5650 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
8.15:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a099 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

#a8a099 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a099
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 #a8a099 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a099-c4b39c-62cbc9-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md