Color

#a8a09f

#a8a09f
hex#a8a09f
rgbrgb(168, 160, 159)
hslhsl(7, 5%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.712 0.009 26.1)
Closest name: Elephant in the Room (#a8a9a8)Relative luminance 0.3597

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9fa7a8

#a89fa2 · #a8a49f

#9fa8a0 · #a09fa8

Split-complementary

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#9fa8a4 · #9fa2a8

#a2a89f · #9fa7a8 · #a49fa8

Contrast

#a8a09f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.56:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e7372 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5655 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.19:1)
Aaon black
8.19:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a09f 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

#a8a09f reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a09f
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 #a8a09f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a09f-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md