Color

#a99899

#a99899
hex#a99899
rgbrgb(169, 152, 153)
hslhsl(356, 9%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.695 0.02 13.6)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3319

Colors that go with #a99899

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 #a99899

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#98a9a8

#a998a2 · #a9a098

#99a998 · #9899a9

Split-complementary

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#98a9a0 · #98a2a9

#a2a998 · #98a9a8 · #a098a9

Contrast

#a99899 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #856f71 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #645455 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.64:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a99899 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

#a99899 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a99899
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 #a99899 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a99899-c49e9c-62cb91-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md