Color

#a8a599

#a8a599
hex#a8a599
rgbrgb(168, 165, 153)
hslhsl(48, 8%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.721 0.017 95.3)
Closest name: Moorland (#a6ab9b)Relative luminance 0.3754

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#999ca8

#a89e99 · #a4a899

#99a8a5 · #a599a8

Split-complementary

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#99a4a8 · #9e99a8

#99a89e · #999ca8 · #a899a4

Contrast

#a8a599 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.47:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #797667 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #5b584d as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.51:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a599 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

#a8a599 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a599
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 #a8a599 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a599-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md