Color

#a8a19f

#a8a19f
hex#a8a19f
rgbrgb(168, 161, 159)
hslhsl(13, 5%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.714 0.009 36.5)
Closest name: Elephant in the Room (#a8a9a8)Relative luminance 0.3632

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9fa6a8

#a89fa1 · #a8a59f

#9fa8a1 · #a19fa8

Split-complementary

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#9fa8a5 · #9fa1a8

#a1a89f · #9fa6a8 · #a59fa8

Contrast

#a8a19f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.54:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e7472 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5755 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.26:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a19f 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

#a8a19f reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a19f
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 #a8a19f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a19f-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md