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Color
#9697ab
#9697ab
hex
#9697abrgb
rgb(150, 151, 171)hsl
hsl(237, 11%, 63%)oklch
oklch(0.682 0.029 283.3)Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3156
Colors that go with #9697ab
Charcoal, Blush Pink 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #9697ab without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #9697ab, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #9697ab: 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9697ab: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #9697ab, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #9697ab: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Ink Wash, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #9697ab in 5 real palettes, including Sephora's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #9697ab
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9697ab as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.87:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.31:1 | 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 #9697ab 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 #9697ab
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #9697ab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9697ab-9f9cc4-df924e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md