Color

#aca5aa

#aca5aa
hex#aca5aa
rgbrgb(172, 165, 170)
hslhsl(317, 4%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.729 0.011 335.6)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3858

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a5aca7

#aaa5ac · #aca5a6

#aaaca5 · #a5aaac

Split-complementary

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#a6aca5 · #a5acaa

#acaaa5 · #a5aca7 · #a5a6ac

Contrast

#aca5aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.41:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d737a as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5d565b as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.07:1)
Aaon black
8.72:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aca5aa 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

#aca5aa reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aca5aa
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 #aca5aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aca5aa-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md