Color

#a99493

#a99493
hex#a99493
rgbrgb(169, 148, 147)
hslhsl(3, 11%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.685 0.025 21)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.3172

Colors that go with #a99493

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.

Real palettes that use #a99493

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#93a8a9

#a9939d · #a99f93

#93a995 · #9593a9

Split-complementary

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#93a99f · #939da9

#9da993 · #93a8a9 · #9f93a9

Contrast

#a99493 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #886e6d as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #665352 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7:1)
Aaon black
7.34:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a99493 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

#a99493 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a99493
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 #a99493 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a99493-c4a39c-62cb9d-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md