Color

#9a957e

#9a957e
hex#9a957e
rgbrgb(154, 149, 126)
hslhsl(49, 12%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.668 0.033 97)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.2987

Colors that go with #9a957e

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.

Real palettes that use #9a957e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7e849a

#9a877e · #919a7e

#7e9a95 · #957e9a

Split-complementary

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#7e919a · #877e9a

#7e9a87 · #7e849a · #9a7e91

Contrast

#9a957e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.01:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #7b7660 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5848 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.97:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9c9781 as the text (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9a957e as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#9a957e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9a957e
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 #9a957e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9a957e-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md