Color

#a9a951

#a9a951
hex#a9a951
rgbrgb(169, 169, 81)
hslhsl(60, 35%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.716 0.111 108.9)
Closest name: Around the Gills (#a1b670)Relative luminance 0.3741

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5151a9

#a97d51 · #7da951

#51a9a9 · #a951a9

Split-complementary

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#517da9 · #7d51a9

#51a97d · #5151a9 · #a9517d

Contrast

#a9a951 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.48:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #78783a as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5a2b as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.48:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a9a951 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9a951
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a9a951 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9a951-bbbea2-4e94df-272d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md