Color

#a9a093

#a9a093
hex#a9a093
rgbrgb(169, 160, 147)
hslhsl(35, 11%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.71 0.021 77.3)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3568

Colors that go with #a9a093

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 #a9a093

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#939ca9

#a99593 · #a7a993

#93a9a0 · #a093a9

Split-complementary

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#93a7a9 · #9593a9

#93a995 · #939ca9 · #a993a7

Contrast

#a9a093 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.58:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7566 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #5d564b as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
8.14:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a9a093 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

#a9a093 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9a093
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 #a9a093 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9a093-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md