Color

#a1afa6

#a1afa6
hex#a1afa6
rgbrgb(161, 175, 166)
hslhsl(141, 8%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.74 0.02 157.7)
Closest name: Moorland (#a6ab9b)Relative luminance 0.4099

Colors that go with #a1afa6

Charcoal, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #a1afa6

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#afa1aa

#a3afa1 · #a1afad

#a6a1af · #afa6a1

Split-complementary

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#ada1af · #afa1a3

#a1a3af · #afa1aa · #afada1

Contrast

#a1afa6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #67796e as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5b52 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
9.2:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a1afa6 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

#a1afa6 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a1afa6
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 #a1afa6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a1afa6-a2beaf-c459d4-1f2d2a-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md