Color

#9ca271

#9ca271
hex#9ca271
rgbrgb(156, 162, 113)
hslhsl(67, 21%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.695 0.068 113.9)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.341

Colors that go with #9ca271

Charcoal, Lilac and Blush Pink 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#7771a2

#a28f71 · #84a271

#719da2 · #a2719d

Split-complementary

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#7184a2 · #8f71a2

#71a28f · #7771a2 · #a27184

Contrast

#9ca271 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #73784f as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #56593a as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.14:1)
Aaon black
7.82:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ca271 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 #9ca271
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 #9ca271 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ca271-b8bea2-4e83df-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md