Color

#a9b8bc

#a9b8bc
hex#a9b8bc
rgbrgb(169, 184, 188)
hslhsl(193, 12%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.772 0.018 215.5)
Closest name: Casper (#aab5b8)Relative luminance 0.4635

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bcada9

#a9bcb6 · #a9afbc

#bca9b8 · #b8bca9

Split-complementary

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#bca9af · #bcb6a9

#b6a9bc · #bcada9 · #afbca9

Contrast

#a9b8bc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.04:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #63787e as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #4a5a5e as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
10.27:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a9b8bc 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

#a9b8bc reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9b8bc
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 #a9b8bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9b8bc-a2b5be-df4e75-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md