Color

#a9abb2

#a9abb2
hex#a9abb2
rgbrgb(169, 171, 178)
hslhsl(227, 6%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.742 0.01 273.3)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.4078

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b2b0a9

#a9b0b2 · #aba9b2

#b2a9ab · #abb2a9

Split-complementary

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#b2aba9 · #b0b2a9

#b2a9b0 · #b2b0a9 · #a9b2ab

Contrast

#a9abb2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.29:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #737682 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #565961 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
9.16:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a9abb2 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

#a9abb2 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9abb2
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 #a9abb2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9abb2-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md