Color

#a8a894

#a8a894
hex#a8a894
rgbrgb(168, 168, 148)
hslhsl(60, 10%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.726 0.028 107.1)
Closest name: Moorland (#a6ab9b)Relative luminance 0.3847

Colors that go with #a8a894

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 #a8a894

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9494a8

#a89e94 · #9ea894

#94a8a8 · #a894a8

Split-complementary

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#949ea8 · #9e94a8

#94a89e · #9494a8 · #a8949e

Contrast

#a8a894 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #767660 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5a49 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a894 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a894
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 #a8a894 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a894-bbbea2-4e94df-272d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md