Color

#9ba281

#9ba281
hex#9ba281
rgbrgb(155, 162, 129)
hslhsl(73, 15%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.698 0.047 117.4)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3439

Colors that go with #9ba281

Charcoal, Lilac and Blue 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 #9ba281

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8881a2

#a29881 · #8aa281

#819ba2 · #a2819b

Split-complementary

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#818aa2 · #9881a2

#81a298 · #8881a2 · #a2818a

Contrast

#9ba281 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #717859 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #565b43 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.88:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ba281 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 #9ba281
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 #9ba281 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ba281-b5bea2-4e75df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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