Color

#a7a5a0

#a7a5a0
hex#a7a5a0
rgbrgb(167, 165, 160)
hslhsl(43, 4%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.722 0.007 88.7)
Closest name: Elephant in the Room (#a8a9a8)Relative luminance 0.3766

Colors that go with #a7a5a0

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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.

Real palettes that use #a7a5a0

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a0a2a7

#a7a1a0 · #a5a7a0

#a0a7a5 · #a5a0a7

Split-complementary

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#a0a5a7 · #a1a0a7

#a0a7a1 · #a0a2a7 · #a7a0a5

Contrast

#a7a5a0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.46:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #77756e as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5853 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.07:1)
Aaon black
8.53:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a7a5a0 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

#a7a5a0 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a7a5a0
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

›analyze #a7a5a0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a7a5a0-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md