Color

#a8a5ac

#a8a5ac
hex#a8a5ac
rgbrgb(168, 165, 172)
hslhsl(266, 4%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.727 0.011 305.3)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3821

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a9aca5

#a5a5ac · #aba5ac

#aca8a5 · #a5aca8

Split-complementary

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#acaba5 · #a5aca5

#aca5a5 · #a9aca5 · #a5acab

Contrast

#a8a5ac as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.43:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #77737d as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #59565d as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.01:1)
Aaon black
8.64:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a5ac 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

#a8a5ac reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a5ac
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 #a8a5ac and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a5ac-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md