Color

#aaa3a1

#aaa3a1
hex#aaa3a1
rgbrgb(170, 163, 161)
hslhsl(13, 5%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.721 0.009 36.5)
Closest name: Elephant in the Room (#a8a9a8)Relative luminance 0.3731

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a1a8aa

#aaa1a4 · #aaa8a1

#a1aaa3 · #a3a1aa

Split-complementary

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#a1aaa8 · #a1a4aa

#a4aaa1 · #a1a8aa · #a8a1aa

Contrast

#aaa3a1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.48:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e7472 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5755 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.01:1)
Aaon black
8.46:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aaa3a1 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

#aaa3a1 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aaa3a1
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 #aaa3a1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aaa3a1-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md