Color

#a8a185

#a8a185
hex#a8a185
rgbrgb(168, 161, 133)
hslhsl(48, 17%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.707 0.04 95.6)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3551

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#858ca8

#a88f85 · #9ea885

#85a8a1 · #a185a8

Split-complementary

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#859ea8 · #8f85a8

#85a88f · #858ca8 · #a8859e

Contrast

#a8a185 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.59:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d7659 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5c5742 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
8.1:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a185 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

#a8a185 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a185
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 #a8a185 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a185-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md