Color

#a79daa

#a79daa
hex#a79daa
rgbrgb(167, 157, 170)
hslhsl(286, 7%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.709 0.022 318.4)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3523

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a0aa9d

#a09daa · #aa9da6

#aaa79d · #9daaa7

Split-complementary

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#a6aa9d · #9daaa0

#aaa09d · #a0aa9d · #9da6aa

Contrast

#a79daa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.61:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7283 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5562 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.05:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79daa as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#a79daa reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a79daa
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 #a79daa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79daa-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md