Color

#a1979f

#a1979f
hex#a1979f
rgbrgb(161, 151, 159)
hslhsl(312, 5%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.687 0.016 332.4)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3221

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97a199

#9e97a1 · #a1979a

#9fa197 · #979fa1

Split-complementary

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#9aa197 · #97a19e

#a19e97 · #97a199 · #979aa1

Contrast

#a1979f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e727b as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #5e555c as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.44:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a1979f 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

#a1979f reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a1979f
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 #a1979f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a1979f-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md