Color

#abaab5

#abaab5
hex#abaab5
rgbrgb(171, 170, 181)
hslhsl(245, 7%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.742 0.016 290.2)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.4074

Colors that go with #abaab5

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 #abaab5

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b5b5aa

#aaafb5 · #b1aab5

#b5abaa · #aab5ab

Split-complementary

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#b5b1aa · #afb5aa

#b5aaaf · #b5b5aa · #aab5b1

Contrast

#abaab5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #767486 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #565562 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
9.15:1passpasspassPasses 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 #abaab5 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

#abaab5 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #abaab5
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 #abaab5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/abaab5-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md