Color

#a8a794

#a8a794
hex#a8a794
rgbrgb(168, 167, 148)
hslhsl(57, 10%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.724 0.027 104.6)
Closest name: Moorland (#a6ab9b)Relative luminance 0.381

Colors that go with #a8a794

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Champagne lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #a8a794

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9495a8

#a89d94 · #9fa894

#94a8a7 · #a794a8

Split-complementary

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#949fa8 · #9d94a8

#94a89d · #9495a8 · #a8949f

Contrast

#a8a794 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #767560 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5949 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.14:1)
Aaon black
8.62:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a794 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

#a8a794 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a794
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a8a794 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a794-bcbea2-4e9bdf-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md