Color

#9ba588

#9ba588
hex#9ba588
rgbrgb(155, 165, 136)
hslhsl(81, 14%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.706 0.042 123)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3566

Colors that go with #9ba588

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 #9ba588

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9288a5

#a5a188 · #8ca588

#889ba5 · #a5889b

Split-complementary

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#888ca5 · #a188a5

#88a5a1 · #9288a5 · #a5888c

Contrast

#9ba588 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.58:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #707a5c as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #525a44 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
8.13:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ba588 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 #9ba588
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 #9ba588 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ba588-b1bea2-4e62df-222d1f-f1f0e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md