Color

#9ca09d

#9ca09d
hex#9ca09d
rgbrgb(156, 160, 157)
hslhsl(135, 2%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.702 0.006 153.7)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3464

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a09c9f

#9da09c · #9ca09f

#9d9ca0 · #a09d9c

Split-complementary

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#9f9ca0 · #a09c9d

#9c9da0 · #a09c9f · #a09f9c

Contrast

#9ca09d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.65:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #707572 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #555856 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.93:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ca09d as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#9ca09d reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9ca09d
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 #9ca09d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ca09d-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md