Color

#9ca191

#9ca191
hex#9ca191
rgbrgb(156, 161, 145)
hslhsl(79, 8%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.7 0.023 121.1)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.346

Colors that go with #9ca191

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 #9ca191

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9691a1

#a19e91 · #94a191

#919ca1 · #a1919c

Split-complementary

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#9194a1 · #9e91a1

#91a19e · #9691a1 · #a19194

Contrast

#9ca191 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.65:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #737967 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #54584b as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.92:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ca191 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

#9ca191 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9ca191
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 #9ca191 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ca191-b2bea2-4e66df-232d1f-f1f0e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md