Color

#97a5a4

#97a5a4
hex#97a5a4
rgbrgb(151, 165, 164)
hslhsl(176, 7%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.711 0.016 191.6)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3617

Colors that go with #97a5a4

Charcoal, Blue and Blush Pink 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.

Real palettes that use #97a5a4

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a59798

#97a59d · #979fa5

#a497a5 · #a5a497

Split-complementary

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#a5979f · #a59d97

#9d97a5 · #a59798 · #9fa597

Contrast

#97a5a4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.55:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #687877 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #4e5a59 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.23:1passpasspassPasses 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 #97a5a4 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#97a5a4 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #97a5a4
live endpoint

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.

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

analyze #97a5a4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/97a5a4-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md