Color

#ab969e

#ab969e
hex#ab969e
rgbrgb(171, 150, 158)
hslhsl(337, 11%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.694 0.027 352.8)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3294

Colors that go with #ab969e

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 #ab969e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96aba3

#ab96a9 · #ab9996

#9eab96 · #969eab

Split-complementary

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#96ab99 · #96a9ab

#a9ab96 · #96aba3 · #9996ab

Contrast

#ab969e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b6f7a as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #665259 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.59:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ab969e 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

#ab969e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab969e
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 #ab969e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab969e-c49ca7-62cb70-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md