Color

#96aba9

#96aba9
hex#96aba9
rgbrgb(150, 171, 169)
hslhsl(174, 11%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.724 0.024 189.7)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3847

Colors that go with #96aba9

Charcoal, Blue 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 #96aba9

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ab9698

#96ab9f · #96a3ab

#a996ab · #aba996

Split-complementary

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#ab96a3 · #ab9f96

#9f96ab · #ab9698 · #a3ab96

Contrast

#96aba9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #627a77 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #495b59 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #96aba9 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 #96aba9
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 #96aba9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/96aba9-a2bebe-d459a1-1f292d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md