Color

#a796ab

#a796ab
hex#a796ab
rgbrgb(167, 150, 171)
hslhsl(289, 11%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.695 0.036 319.8)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3297

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9aab96

#9d96ab · #ab96a4

#aba796 · #96aba7

Split-complementary

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#a4ab96 · #96ab9d

#ab9d96 · #9aab96 · #96a4ab

Contrast

#a796ab as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #866f8b as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #625266 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.59:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a796ab 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 #a796ab
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 #a796ab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a796ab-be9fc1-a8cb62-2d1f2a-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md