Greige
Open in tool →Grey-beige with a hint of olive — the interior-design neutral; the olive accent is the only thing that isn't a shade of nothing.
Color
#9a956a
#9a956a
hex
#9a956argb
rgb(154, 149, 106)hsl
hsl(54, 19%, 51%)oklch
oklch(0.663 0.06 102.3)Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.2941
Colors that go with #9a956a
Charcoal, Cornflower 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #9a956a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #9a956a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #9a956a, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #9a956a in 5 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #9a956a, as the surface under it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #9a956a in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #9a956a: 5 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Spline's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #9a956a in 7 real palettes, including Darkroom and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #9a956a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9a956a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.05:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.88:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9a956a 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
Fonts for this mood
#9a956a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9a956a
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #9a956a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9a956a-bebea2-4ea2df-292d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md