Color

#aaab9c

#aaab9c
hex#aaab9c
rgbrgb(170, 171, 156)
hslhsl(64, 8%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.736 0.021 110)
Closest name: Moorland (#a6ab9b)Relative luminance 0.4007

Colors that go with #aaab9c

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 #aaab9c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9d9cab

#aba49c · #a2ab9c

#9caaab · #ab9caa

Split-complementary

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#9ca2ab · #a49cab

#9caba4 · #9d9cab · #ab9ca2

Contrast

#aaab9c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #757665 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #57584b as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.08:1)
Aaon black
9.01:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aaab9c 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

#aaab9c reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aaab9c
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 #aaab9c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aaab9c-b9bea2-4e8adf-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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