Color

#9ba8b5

#9ba8b5
hex#9ba8b5
rgbrgb(155, 168, 181)
hslhsl(210, 15%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.726 0.024 248.2)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3831

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b5a89b

#9bb5b5 · #9b9bb5

#b59ba8 · #a8b59b

Split-complementary

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#b59b9b · #b5b59b

#b59bb5 · #b5a89b · #9bb59b

Contrast

#9ba8b5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #66788a as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #4c5967 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.66:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ba8b5 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9ba8b5
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #9ba8b5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ba8b5-9cabc4-df514e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md