Color

#9ba696

#9ba696
hex#9ba696
rgbrgb(155, 166, 150)
hslhsl(101, 8%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.712 0.026 135.7)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3644

Colors that go with #9ba696

Charcoal, 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 #9ba696

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a196a6

#a3a696 · #96a699

#969ba6 · #a6969b

Split-complementary

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#9996a6 · #a696a3

#96a3a6 · #a196a6 · #a69996

Contrast

#9ba696 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.53:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6d7967 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #525b4d as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
8.29:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ba696 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

#9ba696 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9ba696
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 #9ba696 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ba696-a7bea2-6b4edf-1f2d21-eff1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md