Color

#ab9696

#ab9696
hex#ab9696
rgbrgb(171, 150, 150)
hslhsl(0, 11%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.692 0.025 17.8)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.3267

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96abab

#ab96a1 · #aba196

#96ab96 · #9696ab

Split-complementary

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#96aba1 · #96a1ab

#a1ab96 · #96abab · #a196ab

Contrast

#ab9696 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b6f6f as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #695454 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.53:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ab9696 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

#ab9696 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab9696
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 #ab9696 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab9696-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md