Color

#a9afbc

#a9afbc
hex#a9afbc
rgbrgb(169, 175, 188)
hslhsl(221, 12%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.753 0.02 265.9)
Closest name: Nebulous December (#b3b2bf)Relative luminance 0.4273

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bcb6a9

#a9b8bc · #ada9bc

#bca9af · #afbca9

Split-complementary

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#bcada9 · #b8bca9

#bca9b8 · #bcb6a9 · #a9bcad

Contrast

#a9afbc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6c7589 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #515867 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
9.55:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a9afbc 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

#a9afbc reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9afbc
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 #a9afbc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9afbc-9ca4c4-df6b4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md