Color

#ab9ca1

#ab9ca1
hex#ab9ca1
rgbrgb(171, 156, 161)
hslhsl(340, 8%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.707 0.019 355.3)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3501

Colors that go with #ab9ca1

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 #ab9ca1

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9caba6

#ab9ca8 · #ab9e9c

#a1ab9c · #9ca1ab

Split-complementary

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#9cab9e · #9ca8ab

#a8ab9c · #9caba6 · #9e9cab

Contrast

#ab9ca1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #847177 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #635459 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
8:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ab9ca1 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ab9ca1 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab9ca1
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 #ab9ca1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab9ca1-c49ca5-62cb75-2d211f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md