Color

#a1a3af

#a1a3af
hex#a1a3af
rgbrgb(161, 163, 175)
hslhsl(231, 8%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.718 0.017 278.4)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3687

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#afada1

#a1aaaf · #a6a1af

#afa1a3 · #a3afa1

Split-complementary

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#afa6a1 · #aaafa1

#afa1aa · #afada1 · #a1afa6

Contrast

#a1a3af as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #717484 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #545763 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
8.37:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a1a3af as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#a1a3af reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a1a3af
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 #a1a3af and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a1a3af-9c9ec4-df834e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md