Color

#a9a6ba

#a9a6ba
hex#a9a6ba
rgbrgb(169, 166, 186)
hslhsl(249, 13%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.734 0.029 292.6)
Closest name: Foggy Plum (#b7a5ad)Relative luminance 0.3925

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b7baa6

#a6adba · #b3a6ba

#baa9a6 · #a6baa9

Split-complementary

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#bab3a6 · #adbaa6

#baa6ad · #b7baa6 · #a6bab3

Contrast

#a9a6ba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.37:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #777292 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #58546d as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.18:1)
Aaon black
8.85:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a9a6ba 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 #a9a6ba
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 #a9a6ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9a6ba-a79cc4-dfae4e-271f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md