Color

#a09ca0

#a09ca0
hex#a09ca0
rgbrgb(160, 156, 160)
hslhsl(300, 2%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.697 0.007 325.7)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3379

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ca09c

#9e9ca0 · #a09c9e

#a0a09c · #9ca0a0

Split-complementary

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#9ea09c · #9ca09e

#a09e9c · #9ca09c · #9c9ea0

Contrast

#a09ca0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.71:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a757a as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #5b575b as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.76:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a09ca0 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

#a09ca0 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a09ca0
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 #a09ca0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a09ca0-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md