Graphite
Open in tool →A greyscale system with a single amber — the accent does all the work, so allow one per screen.
Color
#97a0aargb(151, 160, 170)hsl(212, 10%, 63%)oklch(0.702 0.018 250.9)Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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.
Charcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #97a0aa without the hard edge of pure #000.
Burlywood is paired with #97a0aa in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #97a0aa, as the surface under it.
Designers have shipped Copper with #97a0aa: 8 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green shows up next to #97a0aa in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #97a0aa: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green is paired with #97a0aa in 4 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
7 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #97a0aa, as the text colour against it.
| #97a0aa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.65:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.92:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #97a0aa as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #97a0aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/97a0aa-9caac4-df564e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md