Color

#a98995

#a98995
hex#a98995
rgbrgb(169, 137, 149)
hslhsl(338, 16%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.663 0.042 353.8)
Closest name: Hatoba Pigeon (#95859c)Relative luminance 0.285

Colors that go with #a98995

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #a98995

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#89a99d

#a989a5 · #a98d89

#95a989 · #8995a9

Split-complementary

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#89a98d · #89a5a9

#a5a989 · #89a99d · #8d89a9

Contrast

#a98995 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.13:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #946b7a as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #6d4f5a as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.7:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ae8f9a as the text (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a98995 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

#a98995 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a98995
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 #a98995 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a98995-c49ca6-62cb72-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md