Color

#a5acaa

#a5acaa
hex#a5acaa
rgbrgb(165, 172, 170)
hslhsl(163, 4%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.738 0.008 177.2)
Closest name: Elephant in the Room (#a8a9a8)Relative luminance 0.4041

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aca5a7

#a5aca6 · #a5aaac

#aaa5ac · #acaaa5

Split-complementary

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#aca5aa · #aca6a5

#a6a5ac · #aca5a7 · #aaaca5

Contrast

#a5acaa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.31:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7775 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #535a58 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.13:1)
Aaon black
9.08:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a5acaa 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

#a5acaa reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5acaa
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 #a5acaa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a5acaa-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md