Color

#969f7f

#969f7f
hex#969f7f
rgbrgb(150, 159, 127)
hslhsl(77, 14%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.686 0.046 120.4)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.3281

Colors that go with #969f7f

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 #969f7f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#887f9f

#9f987f · #869f7f

#7f969f · #9f7f96

Split-complementary

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#7f869f · #987f9f

#7f9f98 · #887f9f · #9f7f86

Contrast

#969f7f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.78:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #727a5c as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #545a44 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.13:1)
Aaon black
7.56:1passpasspassPasses 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 #969f7f 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 #969f7f
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 #969f7f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/969f7f-b3bea2-4e6bdf-232d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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