Color

#aaa3ae

#aaa3ae
hex#aaa3ae
rgbrgb(170, 163, 174)
hslhsl(278, 6%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.725 0.018 313.6)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.378

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a7aea3

#a4a3ae · #aea3ac

#aeaaa3 · #a3aeaa

Split-complementary

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#acaea3 · #a3aea4

#aea4a3 · #a7aea3 · #a3acae

Contrast

#aaa3ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.45:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c7382 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #5d5661 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.09:1)
Aaon black
8.56:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aaa3ae as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#aaa3ae reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aaa3ae
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 #aaa3ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aaa3ae-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md