Named color

Dark Ages

#9698a3

hex#9698a3

rgbrgb(150, 152, 163)

hslhsl(231, 7%, 61%)

oklchoklch(0.682 0.016 277.7)

Relative luminance 0.3158

Neutral Minimal

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Dark Ages on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.

Tints & shades

Tints — toward white

a0a1ac a8a9b3 b3b4bd bebfc6 c8cad0 d1d2d7 dcdce0 e6e7ea efeff1 fafafa

Shades — toward black

848794 777988 686b78 5a5c68 4e505a 40414a 323339 242429 18181b 090a0b

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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9698a3 a3a095

#a3a095

Analogous

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9698a3 959ea3 9995a3

#959ea3 · #9995a3

Triadic

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9698a3 a39597 97a395

#a39597 · #97a395

Split-complementary

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9698a3 a39995 9ea395

#a39995 · #9ea395

Tetradic

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9698a3 a3959e a3a095 95a399

#a3959e · #a3a095 · #95a399

Contrast

Dark Ages as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.87:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #727483 as the text (4.62:1) AAA: use #555762 as the text (7.18:1) AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.6:1) AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.1:1)
Aaon black	7.32:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes 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 Dark Ages 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

b08d57 8a97a5 c9c9c9 101418 eef1f4

Estate

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Bronze on charcoal signals premium listings; the silver accent handles secondary detail without adding color.

Luxury Dark ElegantReal Estate

Fonts for this mood

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

Neutral fonts →Minimal fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around Dark Ages

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 #9698a3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9698a3-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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