Color

#a8a199

#a8a199
hex#a8a199
rgbrgb(168, 161, 153)
hslhsl(32, 8%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.713 0.014 71.3)
Closest name: Elephant in the Room (#a8a9a8)Relative luminance 0.3611

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99a0a8

#a89a99 · #a8a899

#99a8a1 · #a199a8

Split-complementary

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#99a8a8 · #9a99a8

#99a89a · #99a0a8 · #a899a8

Contrast

#a8a199 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.55:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c736a as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5750 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
8.22:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a199 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

#a8a199 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a199
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 #a8a199 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a199-c4b69c-62c5cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md