Color

#a1aeaf

#a1aeaf
hex#a1aeaf
rgbrgb(161, 174, 175)
hslhsl(184, 8%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.741 0.015 202.4)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.4094

Colors that go with #a1aeaf

Charcoal, Blue 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 #a1aeaf

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#afa2a1

#a1afa9 · #a1a7af

#afa1ae · #aeafa1

Split-complementary

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#afa1a7 · #afa9a1

#a9a1af · #afa2a1 · #a7afa1

Contrast

#a1aeaf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.29:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #677879 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5a5b as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
9.19:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a1aeaf 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

#a1aeaf reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a1aeaf
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 #a1aeaf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a1aeaf-a2b9be-df4e8a-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md