Color

#aaa797

#aaa797
hex#aaa797
rgbrgb(170, 167, 151)
hslhsl(51, 10%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.726 0.023 98.2)
Closest name: Moorland (#a6ab9b)Relative luminance 0.3842

Colors that go with #aaa797

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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 #aaa797

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#979aaa

#aa9e97 · #a3aa97

#97aaa7 · #a797aa

Split-complementary

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#97a3aa · #9e97aa

#97aa9e · #979aaa · #aa97a3

Contrast

#aaa797 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #797563 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5749 as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.68:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aaa797 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

#aaa797 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aaa797
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 #aaa797 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aaa797-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md