Color

#a98996

#a98996
hex#a98996
rgbrgb(169, 137, 150)
hslhsl(336, 16%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.664 0.043 352)
Closest name: Hatoba Pigeon (#95859c)Relative luminance 0.2853

Colors that go with #a98996

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 #a98996

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#89a99c

#a989a6 · #a98c89

#96a989 · #8996a9

Split-complementary

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#89a98c · #89a6a9

#a6a989 · #89a99c · #8c89a9

Contrast

#a98996 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.13:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #946b7b as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #6d4f5b as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.71:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ae8f9b 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 #a98996 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

#a98996 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a98996
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 #a98996 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a98996-c49ca7-62cb6e-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md