Paper & Pine
Open in tool →Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.
Color
#96a6a0
#96a6a0
hex
#96a6a0rgb
rgb(150, 166, 160)hsl
hsl(157, 8%, 62%)oklch
oklch(0.711 0.02 171.2)Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3629
Colors that go with #96a6a0
Charcoal, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #96a6a0 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #96a6a0, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Estate put Blush Pink beside #96a6a0, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #96a6a0 in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #96a6a0, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #96a6a0: 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #96a6a0 in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #96a6a0: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #96a6a0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #96a6a0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.54:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.26:1 | 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 #96a6a0 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
#96a6a0 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #96a6a0
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 #96a6a0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/96a6a0-a2beb7-d459c4-1f2c2d-e9f1ea?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