Color

#aaa7ae

#aaa7ae
hex#aaa7ae
rgbrgb(170, 167, 174)
hslhsl(266, 4%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.733 0.01 305.3)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3924

Colors that go with #aaa7ae

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #aaa7ae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#abaea7

#a7a8ae · #aea7ae

#aeaaa7 · #a7aeaa

Split-complementary

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#aeaea7 · #a8aea7

#aea7a8 · #abaea7 · #a7aeae

Contrast

#aaa7ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.37:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #77737d as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #59565d as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.18:1)
Aaon black
8.85:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aaa7ae 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

#aaa7ae reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aaa7ae
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 #aaa7ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aaa7ae-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md