Color

#aba7a6

#aba7a6
hex#aba7a6
rgbrgb(171, 167, 166)
hslhsl(12, 3%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.731 0.005 34.3)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3905

Colors that go with #aba7a6

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 #aba7a6

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a6aaab

#aba6a7 · #aba9a6

#a6aba7 · #a7a6ab

Split-complementary

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#a6aba9 · #a6a7ab

#a7aba6 · #a6aaab · #a9a6ab

Contrast

#aba7a6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.38:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #797372 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #5c5857 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.15:1)
Aaon black
8.81:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aba7a6 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

#aba7a6 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aba7a6
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 #aba7a6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aba7a6-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md