Color

#a3aeb2

#a3aeb2
hex#a3aeb2
rgbrgb(163, 174, 178)
hslhsl(196, 9%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.743 0.014 221.5)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.4127

Colors that go with #a3aeb2

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 #a3aeb2

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b2a7a3

#a3b2af · #a3a7b2

#b2a3ae · #aeb2a3

Split-complementary

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#b2a3a7 · #b2afa3

#afa3b2 · #b2a7a3 · #a7b2a3

Contrast

#a3aeb2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.27:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #68787d as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #4f5a5f as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
9.25:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a3aeb2 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

#a3aeb2 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a3aeb2
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 #a3aeb2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a3aeb2-9cb5c4-df4e6e-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md