Color

#a9ad8a

#a9ad8a
hex#a9ad8a
rgbrgb(169, 173, 138)
hslhsl(67, 18%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.735 0.049 112.9)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.4016

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8e8aad

#ada08a · #97ad8a

#8aa9ad · #ad8aa9

Split-complementary

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#8a97ad · #a08aad

#8aada0 · #8e8aad · #ad8a97

Contrast

#a9ad8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747854 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #575a3f as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.09:1)
Aaon black
9.03:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a9ad8a 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 #a9ad8a
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 #a9ad8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9ad8a-b8bea2-4e83df-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md