Color

#a3a8a4

#a3a8a4
hex#a3a8a4
rgbrgb(163, 168, 164)
hslhsl(132, 3%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.726 0.008 151.8)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3847

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a8a3a7

#a5a8a3 · #a3a8a7

#a4a3a8 · #a8a4a3

Split-complementary

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#a7a3a8 · #a8a3a5

#a3a5a8 · #a8a3a7 · #a8a7a3

Contrast

#a3a8a4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6f7671 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #545955 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a3a8a4 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

#a3a8a4 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a3a8a4
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 #a3a8a4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a3a8a4-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md