Color
#a993a0
#a993a0rgb(169, 147, 160)hsl(325, 11%, 62%)oklch(0.687 0.032 341.7)Colors that go with #a993a0
Charcoal, Burlywood 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 #a993a0: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #a993a0 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Darkroom put Champagne beside #a993a0, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a993a0: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a993a0 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Canopy, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #a993a0, as the text colour against it.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
triadicshippedDark Goldenrod completes a triad with #a993a0 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a993a0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.85:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.37:1 | 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 #a993a0 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
#a993a0 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #a993a0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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