Color

#a1a197

#a1a197
hex#a1a197
rgbrgb(161, 161, 151)
hslhsl(60, 5%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.706 0.014 106.8)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.353

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9797a1

#a19c97 · #9ca197

#97a1a1 · #a197a1

Split-complementary

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#979ca1 · #9c97a1

#97a19c · #9797a1 · #a1979c

Contrast

#a1a197 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.61:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #76766b as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #585850 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
8.06:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a1a197 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

#a1a197 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a1a197
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 #a1a197 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a1a197-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md