Color

#a196a2

#a196a2
hex#a196a2
rgbrgb(161, 150, 162)
hslhsl(295, 6%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.686 0.021 323.3)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.32

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97a296

#9b96a2 · #a2969d

#a2a196 · #96a2a1

Split-complementary

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#9da296 · #96a29b

#a29b96 · #97a296 · #969da2

Contrast

#a196a2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.84:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e717f as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #5e545f as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.4:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a196a2 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

#a196a2 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a196a2
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 #a196a2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a196a2-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md