Color

#9ca06a

#9ca06a
hex#9ca06a
rgbrgb(156, 160, 106)
hslhsl(64, 22%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.074 111.8)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.3325

Colors that go with #9ca06a

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blue 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 #9ca06a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6d6aa0

#a0886a · #81a06a

#6a9ca0 · #a06a9c

Split-complementary

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#6a81a0 · #886aa0

#6aa088 · #6d6aa0 · #a06a81

Contrast

#9ca06a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #76794e as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #585a3a as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.65:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ca06a as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9ca06a
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 #9ca06a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ca06a-b9bea2-4e8adf-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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