Color

#969d80

#969d80
hex#969d80
rgbrgb(150, 157, 128)
hslhsl(74, 13%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.682 0.042 118.5)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.3216

Colors that go with #969d80

Charcoal, Medium Purple and Blue 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 #969d80

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#87809d

#9d9680 · #889d80

#80979d · #9d8097

Split-complementary

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#80889d · #96809d

#809d96 · #87809d · #9d8088

Contrast

#969d80 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.83:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #73795d as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #555945 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.43:1passpasspassPasses 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 #969d80 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 #969d80
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 #969d80 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/969d80-b4bea2-4e72df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md