Color

#9c8ea4

#9c8ea4
hex#9c8ea4
rgbrgb(156, 142, 164)
hslhsl(278, 11%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.666 0.036 313.4)
Closest name: Hatoba Pigeon (#95859c)Relative luminance 0.2909

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96a48e

#918ea4 · #a48ea1

#a49c8e · #8ea49c

Split-complementary

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#a1a48e · #8ea491

#a4918e · #96a48e · #8ea1a4

Contrast

#9c8ea4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.08:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #816f8b as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #615469 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.82:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9e91a6 as the text (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9c8ea4 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 #9c8ea4
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 #9c8ea4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9c8ea4-ba9cc4-bbcb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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