Color

#9ca187

#9ca187
hex#9ca187
rgbrgb(156, 161, 135)
hslhsl(72, 12%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.698 0.037 116.2)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3431

Colors that go with #9ca187

Charcoal, Lilac 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 #9ca187

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8c87a1

#a19987 · #8fa187

#879ca1 · #a1879c

Split-complementary

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#878fa1 · #9987a1

#87a199 · #8c87a1 · #a1878f

Contrast

#9ca187 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #73785e as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #575b48 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.86:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ca187 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 #9ca187
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 #9ca187 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ca187-b5bea2-4e77df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md