Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#a8b299
#a8b299
hex
#a8b299rgb
rgb(168, 178, 153)hsl
hsl(84, 14%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.749 0.037 125.1)Closest name: Gargoyle (#abb39e)Relative luminance 0.4247
Colors that go with #a8b299
Charcoal, Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a8b299: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #a8b299, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom put Champagne beside #a8b299, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a8b299: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a8b299 in 4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a8b299 in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #a8b299: 4 real palettes, including Liquid Death's brand system and Spline's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #a8b299: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #a8b299
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a8b299 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.21:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.49:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #a8b299 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8b299
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #a8b299 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a8b299-afbea2-4e5adf-222d1f-f1f0e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md