Color

#a3abae

#a3abae
hex#a3abae
rgbrgb(163, 171, 174)
hslhsl(196, 6%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.736 0.01 222.1)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3997

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aea6a3

#a3aeab · #a3a6ae

#aea3ab · #abaea3

Split-complementary

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#aea3a6 · #aeaba3

#aba3ae · #aea6a3 · #a6aea3

Contrast

#a3abae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6c767a as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #51595c as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a3abae 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

#a3abae reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a3abae
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 #a3abae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a3abae-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md