Color

#aa97a7

#aa97a7
hex#aa97a7
rgbrgb(170, 151, 167)
hslhsl(309, 10%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.698 0.032 331.1)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3347

Colors that go with #aa97a7

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 #aa97a7

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97aa9a

#a397aa · #aa979e

#a7aa97 · #97a7aa

Split-complementary

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#9eaa97 · #97aaa3

#aaa397 · #97aa9a · #979eaa

Contrast

#aa97a7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.73:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #876e83 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #655362 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aa97a7 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

#aa97a7 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa97a7
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 #aa97a7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa97a7-c19fb8-85cb62-2d1f25-eee9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md