Color

#a0a9ba

#a0a9ba
hex#a0a9ba
rgbrgb(160, 169, 186)
hslhsl(219, 16%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.733 0.027 263.3)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3939

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bab1a0

#a0b7ba · #a4a0ba

#baa0a9 · #a9baa0

Split-complementary

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#baa4a0 · #b7baa0

#baa0b7 · #bab1a0 · #a0baa4

Contrast

#a0a9ba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.37:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #697791 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #4d576a as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.21:1)
Aaon black
8.88:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a0a9ba 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 #a0a9ba
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 #a0a9ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a0a9ba-9ca5c4-df664e-211f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md