Color

#a8a6a3

#a8a6a3
hex#a8a6a3
rgbrgb(168, 166, 163)
hslhsl(36, 3%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.726 0.005 78.3)
Closest name: Elephant in the Room (#a8a9a8)Relative luminance 0.3824

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a3a5a8

#a8a4a3 · #a8a8a3

#a3a8a6 · #a6a3a8

Split-complementary

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#a3a8a8 · #a4a3a8

#a3a8a4 · #a3a5a8 · #a8a3a8

Contrast

#a8a6a3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.43:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #797672 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #595754 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.02:1)
Aaon black
8.65:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a6a3 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

#a8a6a3 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a6a3
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 #a8a6a3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a6a3-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md