Color

#aba8ad

#aba8ad
hex#aba8ad
rgbrgb(171, 168, 173)
hslhsl(276, 3%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.736 0.008 312.3)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3968

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aaada8

#a9a8ad · #ada8ad

#adaba8 · #a8adab

Split-complementary

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#adada8 · #a8ada9

#ada9a8 · #aaada8 · #a8adad

Contrast

#aba8ad as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.35:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #79747b as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #5a575c as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.01:1)
Aaon black
8.94:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aba8ad 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

#aba8ad reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aba8ad
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #aba8ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aba8ad-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md