Color

#9ca098

#9ca098
hex#9ca098
rgbrgb(156, 160, 152)
hslhsl(90, 4%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.7 0.012 128.7)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3448

Colors that go with #9ca098

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #9ca098

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9c98a0

#a0a098 · #98a098

#989ca0 · #a0989c

Split-complementary

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#9898a0 · #a098a0

#98a0a0 · #9c98a0 · #a09898

Contrast

#9ca098 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.66:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #73776e as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #575a53 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.9:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ca098 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

Fonts for this mood

#9ca098 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9ca098
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 #9ca098 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ca098-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md