Color

#96a7bb

#96a7bb
hex#96a7bb
rgbrgb(150, 167, 187)
hslhsl(212, 21%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.722 0.035 252.5)
Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.3771

Colors that go with #96a7bb

Charcoal, Sand and Burlywood 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 #96a7bb

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bbaa96

#96b9bb · #9796bb

#bb96a7 · #a7bb96

Split-complementary

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#bb9796 · #b9bb96

#bb96b9 · #bbaa96 · #96bb97

Contrast

#96a7bb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.46:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5f7691 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #47586c as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.08:1)
Aaon black
8.54:1passpasspassPasses 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 #96a7bb 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 #96a7bb
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 #96a7bb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/96a7bb-9caac4-df564e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md