Color

#96aba5

#96aba5
hex#96aba5
rgbrgb(150, 171, 165)
hslhsl(163, 11%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.723 0.025 176.5)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3833

Colors that go with #96aba5

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #96aba5

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ab969c

#96ab9b · #96a7ab

#a596ab · #aba596

Split-complementary

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#ab96a7 · #ab9b96

#9b96ab · #ab969c · #a7ab96

Contrast

#96aba5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #627a73 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #495b55 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.67:1passpasspassPasses 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 #96aba5 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #96aba5
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 #96aba5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/96aba5-a2beb9-d459b7-1f2b2d-e9f1eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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