Color

#9baba4

#9baba4
hex#9baba4
rgbrgb(155, 171, 164)
hslhsl(154, 9%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.727 0.021 167.7)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3877

Colors that go with #9baba4

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 #9baba4

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ab9ba2

#9bab9c · #9baaab

#a49bab · #aba49b

Split-complementary

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#ab9baa · #ab9c9b

#9c9bab · #ab9ba2 · #aaab9b

Contrast

#9baba4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.4:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #667a72 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5c55 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.1:1)
Aaon black
8.75:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9baba4 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

#9baba4 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9baba4
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 #9baba4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9baba4-a2beb5-d459ca-1f2d2d-e9f1ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md