Color

#96a6a4

#96a6a4
hex#96a6a4
rgbrgb(150, 166, 164)
hslhsl(173, 8%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.712 0.018 187.7)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3644

Colors that go with #96a6a4

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.

Real palettes that use #96a6a4

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a69698

#96a69c · #96a0a6

#a496a6 · #a6a496

Split-complementary

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#a696a0 · #a69c96

#9c96a6 · #a69698 · #a0a696

Contrast

#96a6a4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.53:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #677977 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5b59 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
8.29:1passpasspassPasses 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 #96a6a4 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#96a6a4 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #96a6a4
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 #96a6a4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/96a6a4-a2bebe-d459a3-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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