Color

#a8a99e

#a8a99e
hex#a8a99e
rgbrgb(168, 169, 158)
hslhsl(65, 6%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.731 0.016 111)
Closest name: Moorland (#a6ab9b)Relative luminance 0.3917

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9f9ea9

#a9a49e · #a2a99e

#9ea8a9 · #a99ea8

Split-complementary

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#9ea2a9 · #a49ea9

#9ea9a4 · #9f9ea9 · #a99ea2

Contrast

#a8a99e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.38:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #767769 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #58594f as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.17:1)
Aaon black
8.83:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a99e 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

#a8a99e reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a99e
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 #a8a99e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a99e-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md