Color

#a6a8b5

#a6a8b5
hex#a6a8b5
rgbrgb(166, 168, 181)
hslhsl(232, 9%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.734 0.019 278.9)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3945

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b5b3a6

#a6afb5 · #aba6b5

#b5a6a8 · #a8b5a6

Split-complementary

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#b5aba6 · #afb5a6

#b5a6af · #b5b3a6 · #a6b5ab

Contrast

#a6a8b5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.36:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #727588 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #565867 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.21:1)
Aaon black
8.89:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a6a8b5 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

#a6a8b5 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a6a8b5
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 #a6a8b5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a6a8b5-9c9dc4-df864e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md