Color

#9ca1bf

#9ca1bf
hex#9ca1bf
rgbrgb(156, 161, 191)
hslhsl(231, 21%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.715 0.044 277.8)
Closest name: Imperial Lilac (#a99fcf)Relative luminance 0.3632

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bfb99c

#9cb3bf · #a89cbf

#bf9ca1 · #a1bf9c

Split-complementary

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#bfa89c · #b3bf9c

#bf9cb3 · #bfb99c · #9cbfa8

Contrast

#9ca1bf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.54:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6b739e as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #51577b as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.26:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ca1bf as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9ca1bf
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 #9ca1bf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ca1bf-9c9ec4-df834e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md