Color

#a197a1

#a197a1
hex#a197a1
rgbrgb(161, 151, 161)
hslhsl(300, 5%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.688 0.018 325.8)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3228

Tints & shades

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Harmonies

Complementary

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#97a197

#9c97a1 · #a1979c

#a1a197 · #97a1a1

Split-complementary

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#9ca197 · #97a19c

#a19c97 · #97a197 · #979ca1

Contrast

#a197a1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e727e as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #5e555e as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.46:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a197a1 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

#a197a1 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a197a1
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 #a197a1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a197a1-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md