Color

#a9bcba

#a9bcba
hex#a9bcba
rgbrgb(169, 188, 186)
hslhsl(174, 12%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.78 0.021 189.1)
Closest name: Casper (#aab5b8)Relative luminance 0.4795

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bca9ab

#a9bcb1 · #a9b4bc

#baa9bc · #bcbaa9

Split-complementary

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#bca9b4 · #bcb1a9

#b1a9bc · #bca9ab · #b4bca9

Contrast

#a9bcba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.98:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #607b78 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #485b59 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.14:1)
Aaon black
10.59:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a9bcba 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

#a9bcba reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9bcba
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 #a9bcba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9bcba-a2bebe-d459a1-1f292d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md