Graphite
Open in tool →A greyscale system with a single amber — the accent does all the work, so allow one per screen.
Color
#ab9ca2
#ab9ca2
hex
#ab9ca2rgb
rgb(171, 156, 162)hsl
hsl(336, 8%, 64%)oklch
oklch(0.708 0.019 351.4)Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3504
Colors that go with #ab9ca2
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #ab9ca2 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ab9ca2 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Kiln, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #ab9ca2 in 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #ab9ca2 in 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #ab9ca2 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #ab9ca2 in 5 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #ab9ca2 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Pine & Birch, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #ab9ca2 in 4 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ab9ca2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.62:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.01:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #ab9ca2 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
#ab9ca2 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab9ca2
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #ab9ca2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ab9ca2-c49ca7-62cb6e-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md