Color

#a7aead

#a7aead
hex#a7aead
rgbrgb(167, 174, 173)
hslhsl(171, 4%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.745 0.008 186.8)
Closest name: Cathedral (#acaaa7)Relative luminance 0.415

Colors that go with #a7aead

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #a7aead

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aea7a8

#a7aeaa · #a7acae

#ada7ae · #aeada7

Split-complementary

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#aea7ac · #aeaaa7

#aaa7ae · #aea7a8 · #acaea7

Contrast

#a7aead as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.26:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7776 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #535a59 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
9.3:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a7aead 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

#a7aead reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a7aead
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 #a7aead and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a7aead-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md