Color

#a9aebc

#a9aebc
hex#a9aebc
rgbrgb(169, 174, 188)
hslhsl(224, 12%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.751 0.021 270.1)
Closest name: Nebulous December (#b3b2bf)Relative luminance 0.4234

Colors that go with #a9aebc

Charcoal, Blue and Burlywood lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #a9aebc

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bcb7a9

#a9b7bc · #aea9bc

#bca9ae · #aebca9

Split-complementary

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#bcaea9 · #b7bca9

#bca9b7 · #bcb7a9 · #a9bcae

Contrast

#a9aebc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.22:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e768c as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #515767 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.26:1)
Aaon black
9.47:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a9aebc 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

#a9aebc reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9aebc
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a9aebc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9aebc-9ca2c4-df724e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md