Color

#9ca079

#9ca079
hex#9ca079
rgbrgb(156, 160, 121)
hslhsl(66, 17%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.692 0.055 112.6)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.3359

Colors that go with #9ca079

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 #9ca079

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7d79a0

#a09079 · #88a079

#799ca0 · #a0799c

Split-complementary

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#7988a0 · #9079a0

#79a090 · #7d79a0 · #a07988

Contrast

#9ca079 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.72:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747755 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #575a3f as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.72:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ca079 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 #9ca079
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 #9ca079 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ca079-b8bea2-4e86df-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md