Color

#aaa4ad

#aaa4ad
hex#aaa4ad
rgbrgb(170, 164, 173)
hslhsl(280, 5%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.726 0.014 314.7)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3811

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a7ada4

#a5a4ad · #ada4ab

#adaaa4 · #a4adaa

Split-complementary

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#abada4 · #a4ada5

#ada5a4 · #a7ada4 · #a4abad

Contrast

#aaa4ad as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a727e as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #5d5760 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.15:1)
Aaon black
8.62:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aaa4ad 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

#aaa4ad reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aaa4ad
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 #aaa4ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aaa4ad-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md