Color

#9ca26d

#9ca26d
hex#9ca26d
rgbrgb(156, 162, 109)
hslhsl(67, 22%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.694 0.073 113.6)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.3401

Colors that go with #9ca26d

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 #9ca26d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#736da2

#a28d6d · #81a26d

#6d9ba2 · #a26d9b

Split-complementary

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#6d81a2 · #8d6da2

#6da28d · #736da2 · #a26d81

Contrast

#9ca26d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #74794e as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #565a3a as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.8:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ca26d 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 #9ca26d
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 #9ca26d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ca26d-b8bea2-4e83df-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md