Color

#9ba489

#9ba489
hex#9ba489
rgbrgb(155, 164, 137)
hslhsl(80, 13%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.704 0.04 122.4)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3533

Colors that go with #9ba489

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.

Real palettes that use #9ba489

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9289a4

#a4a089 · #8da489

#899ba4 · #a4899b

Split-complementary

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#898da4 · #a089a4

#89a4a0 · #9289a4 · #a4898d

Contrast

#9ba489 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.6:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #70795d as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #525945 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
8.07:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ba489 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 #9ba489
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 #9ba489 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ba489-b1bea2-4e64df-232d1f-f1f0e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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