Color

#aa9cb0

#aa9cb0
hex#aa9cb0
rgbrgb(170, 156, 176)
hslhsl(282, 11%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.711 0.033 315.9)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3546

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a2b09c

#a09cb0 · #b09cac

#b0aa9c · #9cb0aa

Split-complementary

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#acb09c · #9cb0a0

#b0a09c · #a2b09c · #9cacb0

Contrast

#aa9cb0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.6:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #826f8b as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #605266 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
8.09:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aa9cb0 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa9cb0
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 #aa9cb0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa9cb0-ba9fc1-b4cb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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