Color

#a9aba0

#a9aba0
hex#a9aba0
rgbrgb(169, 171, 160)
hslhsl(71, 6%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.736 0.016 115.1)
Closest name: Moorland (#a6ab9b)Relative luminance 0.401

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a2a0ab

#aba8a0 · #a4aba0

#a0a9ab · #aba0a9

Split-complementary

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#a0a4ab · #a8a0ab

#a0aba8 · #a2a0ab · #aba0a4

Contrast

#a9aba0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747769 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #57594f as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.08:1)
Aaon black
9.02:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a9aba0 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

#a9aba0 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9aba0
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 #a9aba0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9aba0-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md