Color

#aa97a3

#aa97a3
hex#aa97a3
rgbrgb(170, 151, 163)
hslhsl(322, 10%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.697 0.028 339.6)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3332

Colors that go with #aa97a3

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #aa97a3

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97aa9e

#a897aa · #aa979a

#a3aa97 · #97a3aa

Split-complementary

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#9aaa97 · #97aaa8

#aaa897 · #97aa9e · #979aaa

Contrast

#aa97a3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.74:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #876e7e as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #65535e as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.66:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aa97a3 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

#aa97a3 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa97a3
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 #aa97a3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa97a3-c19fb1-6ecb62-2d1f22-f0e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md