Color

#9aa989

#9aa989
hex#9aa989
rgbrgb(154, 169, 137)
hslhsl(88, 16%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.714 0.048 128)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3705

Colors that go with #9aa989

Charcoal, Lilac 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#9889a9

#a9a889 · #8aa989

#899aa9 · #a9899a

Split-complementary

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#898aa9 · #a889a9

#89a9a8 · #9889a9 · #a9898a

Contrast

#9aa989 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.5:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6a7958 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #505c42 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.18:1)
Aaon black
8.41:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9aa989 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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9aa989
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 #9aa989 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9aa989-aebea2-4e51df-212d1f-f1f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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