Color

#a5a0ba

#a5a0ba
hex#a5a0ba
rgbrgb(165, 160, 186)
hslhsl(252, 16%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.718 0.038 294.2)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3669

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b5baa0

#a0a8ba · #b3a0ba

#baa6a0 · #a0baa6

Split-complementary

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#bab3a0 · #a8baa0

#baa0a8 · #b5baa0 · #a0bab3

Contrast

#a5a0ba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.52:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #797198 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5473 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
8.34:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a5a0ba as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5a0ba
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 #a5a0ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a5a0ba-a99cc4-dfb64e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md