Color

#a596a6

#a596a6
hex#a596a6
rgbrgb(165, 150, 166)
hslhsl(296, 8%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.691 0.029 324)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3257

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97a696

#9d96a6 · #a6969f

#a6a596 · #96a6a5

Split-complementary

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#9fa696 · #96a69d

#a69d96 · #97a696 · #969fa6

Contrast

#a596a6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #837184 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #625463 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.51:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a596a6 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

#a596a6 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a596a6
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 #a596a6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a596a6-c19fbf-9ccb62-2d1f28-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md