Color

#a1aaa7

#a1aaa7
hex#a1aaa7
rgbrgb(161, 170, 167)
hslhsl(160, 5%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.73 0.011 174.1)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3912

Colors that go with #a1aaa7

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #a1aaa7

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aaa1a4

#a1aaa3 · #a1a9aa

#a7a1aa · #aaa7a1

Split-complementary

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#aaa1a9 · #aaa3a1

#a3a1aa · #aaa1a4 · #a9aaa1

Contrast

#a1aaa7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.38:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6d7875 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #525b58 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.16:1)
Aaon black
8.82:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a1aaa7 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

#a1aaa7 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a1aaa7
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a1aaa7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a1aaa7-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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