Color

#a197aa

#a197aa
hex#a197aa
rgbrgb(161, 151, 170)
hslhsl(272, 10%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.691 0.03 309.1)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3261

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a0aa97

#9897aa · #aa97a9

#aaa197 · #97aaa1

Split-complementary

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#a9aa97 · #97aa98

#aa9897 · #a0aa97 · #97a9aa

Contrast

#a197aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e7089 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5568 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.52:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a197aa 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 #a197aa
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 #a197aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a197aa-b69cc4-c5cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md