Color

#9596a7

#9596a7
hex#9596a7
rgbrgb(149, 150, 167)
hslhsl(237, 9%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.678 0.025 283)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3099

Colors that go with #9596a7

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 #9596a7

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a7a695

#959fa7 · #9d95a7

#a79596 · #96a795

Split-complementary

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#a79d95 · #9fa795

#a7959f · #a7a695 · #95a79d

Contrast

#9596a7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.92:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #74758b as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #565767 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.2:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9596a7 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

#9596a7 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9596a7
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 #9596a7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9596a7-9f9cc4-df924e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md