Color

#ababb5

#ababb5
hex#ababb5
rgbrgb(171, 171, 181)
hslhsl(240, 6%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.744 0.014 286)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.4112

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b5b5ab

#abb0b5 · #b0abb5

#b5abab · #abb5ab

Split-complementary

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#b5b0ab · #b0b5ab

#b5abb0 · #b5b5ab · #abb5b0

Contrast

#ababb5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.28:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #757584 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #565661 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
9.22:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ababb5 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

#ababb5 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ababb5
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 #ababb5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ababb5-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md