Color

#9c8ca6

#9c8ca6
hex#9c8ca6
rgbrgb(156, 140, 166)
hslhsl(277, 13%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.663 0.042 312.5)
Closest name: Hatoba Pigeon (#95859c)Relative luminance 0.2858

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96a68c

#8f8ca6 · #a68ca3

#a69c8c · #8ca69c

Split-complementary

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#a3a68c · #8ca68f

#a68f8c · #96a68c · #8ca3a6

Contrast

#9c8ca6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.13:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #836f90 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #61526b as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.53:1)
Aaon black
6.72:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a192ab as the text (7.22:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9c8ca6 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 #9c8ca6
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 #9c8ca6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9c8ca6-b99cc4-bdcb62-2d1f2c-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md