Color

#96abaa

#96abaa
hex#96abaa
rgbrgb(150, 171, 170)
hslhsl(177, 11%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.725 0.023 193.1)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3851

Colors that go with #96abaa

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 #96abaa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ab9697

#96aba0 · #96a2ab

#aa96ab · #abaa96

Split-complementary

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#ab96a2 · #aba096

#a096ab · #ab9697 · #a2ab96

Contrast

#96abaa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.41:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #627a79 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #495b5a as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.7:1passpasspassPasses 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 #96abaa 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 #96abaa
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 #96abaa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/96abaa-a2bcbe-d4599b-1f282d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md