Color

#a997aa

#a997aa
hex#a997aa
rgbrgb(169, 151, 170)
hslhsl(297, 10%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.698 0.034 324.3)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3347

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#98aa97

#a097aa · #aa97a2

#aaa997 · #97aaa9

Split-complementary

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#a2aa97 · #97aaa0

#aaa097 · #98aa97 · #97a2aa

Contrast

#a997aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.73:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #856e87 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #645365 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a997aa as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a997aa
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 #a997aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a997aa-c19fbe-9acb62-2d1f28-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md