Color

#a8a299

#a8a299
hex#a8a299
rgbrgb(168, 162, 153)
hslhsl(36, 8%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.715 0.015 78.2)
Closest name: Elephant in the Room (#a8a9a8)Relative luminance 0.3647

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#999fa8

#a89b99 · #a7a899

#99a8a2 · #a299a8

Split-complementary

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#99a7a8 · #9b99a8

#99a89b · #999fa8 · #a899a7

Contrast

#a8a299 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.53:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c756a as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5850 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
8.29:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a299 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

#a8a299 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a299
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 #a8a299 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a299-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md