Color

#9797a1

#9797a1
hex#9797a1
rgbrgb(151, 151, 161)
hslhsl(240, 5%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.68 0.015 286)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3129

Tints & shades

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Harmonies

Complementary

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#a1a197

#979ca1 · #9c97a1

#a19797 · #97a197

Split-complementary

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#a19c97 · #9ca197

#a1979c · #a1a197 · #97a19c

Contrast

#9797a1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747481 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #575760 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.26:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9797a1 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

#9797a1 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9797a1
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 #9797a1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9797a1-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md