Color

#a8a49f

#a8a49f
hex#a8a49f
rgbrgb(168, 164, 159)
hslhsl(33, 5%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.721 0.009 73.7)
Closest name: Elephant in the Room (#a8a9a8)Relative luminance 0.3738

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9fa3a8

#a89f9f · #a7a89f

#9fa8a4 · #a49fa8

Split-complementary

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#9fa7a8 · #9f9fa8

#9fa89f · #9fa3a8 · #a89fa7

Contrast

#a8a49f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.48:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b766f as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5752 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.02:1)
Aaon black
8.48:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a49f 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

#a8a49f reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a49f
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 #a8a49f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a49f-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md