Color

#97aaa6

#97aaa6
hex#97aaa6
rgbrgb(151, 170, 166)
hslhsl(167, 10%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.722 0.022 181.6)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3808

Colors that go with #97aaa6

Charcoal, Blue and Burlywood 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 #97aaa6

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aa979b

#97aa9d · #97a5aa

#a697aa · #aaa697

Split-complementary

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#aa97a5 · #aa9d97

#9d97aa · #aa979b · #a5aa97

Contrast

#97aaa6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #657b77 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #495a56 as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.14:1)
Aaon black
8.62:1passpasspassPasses 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 #97aaa6 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 #97aaa6
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 #97aaa6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/97aaa6-a2bebb-d459af-1f2a2d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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