Color

#696a72

#696a72
hex#696a72
rgbrgb(105, 106, 114)
hslhsl(233, 4%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.526 0.013 280.3)
Closest name: Alley Cat (#656874)Relative luminance 0.1453

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#727169

#696f72 · #6d6972

#72696a · #6a7269

Split-complementary

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#726d69 · #6f7269

#72696f · #727169 · #69726d

Contrast

#696a72 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.38:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #56575d as the text (7.2:1)
Aaon black
3.91:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #73747d as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #95969d as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (4.51:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #696a72 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

#696a72 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #696a72
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 #696a72 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/696a72-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md