Color

#abaca5

#abaca5
hex#abaca5
rgbrgb(171, 172, 165)
hslhsl(69, 4%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.742 0.01 113.2)
Closest name: Cathedral (#acaaa7)Relative luminance 0.4088

Colors that go with #abaca5

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #abaca5

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a6a5ac

#aca9a5 · #a7aca5

#a5abac · #aca5ab

Split-complementary

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#a5a7ac · #a9a5ac

#a5aca9 · #a6a5ac · #aca5a7

Contrast

#abaca5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.29:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #76776e as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #575851 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
9.18:1passpasspassPasses 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 #abaca5 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

#abaca5 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #abaca5
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 #abaca5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/abaca5-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md