Color

#a99993

#a99993
hex#a99993
rgbrgb(169, 153, 147)
hslhsl(16, 11%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.695 0.021 41.7)
Closest name: Coca Mocha (#bd9d95)Relative luminance 0.3332

Colors that go with #a99993

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 #a99993

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#93a3a9

#a99398 · #a9a493

#93a999 · #9993a9

Split-complementary

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#93a9a4 · #9398a9

#98a993 · #93a3a9 · #a493a9

Contrast

#a99993 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.74:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #85726b as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #63554f as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.66:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a99993 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#a99993 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a99993
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 #a99993 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a99993-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md