Color

#9495a8

#9495a8
hex#9495a8
rgbrgb(148, 149, 168)
hslhsl(237, 10%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.675 0.028 283.2)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3062

Colors that go with #9495a8

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #9495a8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a8a794

#949fa8 · #9d94a8

#a89495 · #95a894

Split-complementary

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#a89d94 · #9fa894

#a8949f · #a8a794 · #94a89d

Contrast

#9495a8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.95:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #73748c as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #555668 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.12:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9495a8 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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9495a8
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 #9495a8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9495a8-9f9cc4-df924e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md