Color

#a09cab

#a09cab
hex#a09cab
rgbrgb(160, 156, 171)
hslhsl(256, 8%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.701 0.022 298)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3419

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a7ab9c

#9c9fab · #a79cab

#aba09c · #9caba0

Split-complementary

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#aba79c · #9fab9c

#ab9c9f · #a7ab9c · #9caba7

Contrast

#a09cab as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.68:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #787387 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5766 as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.15:1)
Aaon black
7.84:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a09cab 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

#a09cab reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a09cab
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 #a09cab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a09cab-ab9cc4-dfbf4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md