Color

#ab9ba0

#ab9ba0
hex#ab9ba0
rgbrgb(171, 155, 160)
hslhsl(341, 9%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.705 0.02 356.7)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3464

Colors that go with #ab9ba0

Charcoal, Burlywood 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 #ab9ba0

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9baba6

#ab9ba8 · #ab9e9b

#a0ab9b · #9ba0ab

Split-complementary

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#9bab9e · #9ba8ab

#a8ab9b · #9baba6 · #9e9bab

Contrast

#ab9ba0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.65:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #856f76 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #645459 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.93:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ab9ba0 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

#ab9ba0 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab9ba0
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 #ab9ba0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab9ba0-c49ca4-62cb77-2d211f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md