Color
#a696a5
#a696a5rgb(166, 150, 165)hsl(304, 8%, 62%)oklch(0.692 0.028 327.8)Colors that go with #a696a5
Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #a696a5 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #a696a5 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Darkroom put Champagne beside #a696a5, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a696a5: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a696a5 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Pine & Birch, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #a696a5, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #a696a5: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a696a5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.79:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.53:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #a696a5 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
#a696a5 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #a696a5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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