Color

#a7aeaf

#a7aeaf
hex#a7aeaf
rgbrgb(167, 174, 175)
hslhsl(187, 5%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.746 0.008 207.1)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.4158

Colors that go with #a7aeaf

Charcoal, Blue 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 #a7aeaf

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#afa8a7

#a7afac · #a7aaaf

#afa7ae · #aeafa7

Split-complementary

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#afa7aa · #afaca7

#aca7af · #afa8a7 · #aaafa7

Contrast

#a7aeaf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.25:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6d7778 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #525a5b as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
9.32:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a7aeaf 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

#a7aeaf reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a7aeaf
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 #a7aeaf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a7aeaf-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md