Color

#a7aaaf

#a7aaaf
hex#a7aaaf
rgbrgb(167, 170, 175)
hslhsl(218, 5%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.737 0.008 260.7)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.4006

Colors that go with #a7aaaf

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 #a7aaaf

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#afaca7

#a7aeaf · #a8a7af

#afa7aa · #aaafa7

Split-complementary

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#afa8a7 · #aeafa7

#afa7ae · #afaca7 · #a7afa8

Contrast

#a7aaaf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #72767e as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #55585e as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.07:1)
Aaon black
9.01:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a7aaaf 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

#a7aaaf reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a7aaaf
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 #a7aaaf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a7aaaf-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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