Color

#a797af

#a797af
hex#a797af
rgbrgb(167, 151, 175)
hslhsl(280, 13%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.698 0.039 314.6)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3344

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9faf97

#9b97af · #af97ab

#afa797 · #97afa7

Split-complementary

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#abaf97 · #97af9b

#af9b97 · #9faf97 · #97abaf

Contrast

#a797af as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.73:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #826d8d as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #62526b as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a797af 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 #a797af
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 #a797af and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a797af-b99fc1-b8cb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md