Color

#a9a7a7

#a9a7a7
hex#a9a7a7
rgbrgb(169, 167, 167)
hslhsl(0, 1%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.73 0.002 17.2)
Closest name: Elephant in the Room (#a8a9a8)Relative luminance 0.3886

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a7a9a9

#a9a7a8 · #a9a8a7

#a7a9a7 · #a7a7a9

Split-complementary

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#a7a9a8 · #a7a8a9

#a8a9a7 · #a7a9a9 · #a8a7a9

Contrast

#a9a7a7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.39:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #767474 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5858 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.12:1)
Aaon black
8.77:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a9a7a7 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

#a9a7a7 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9a7a7
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 #a9a7a7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9a7a7-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md