Color

#9ca399

#9ca399
hex#9ca399
rgbrgb(156, 163, 153)
hslhsl(102, 5%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.707 0.016 136.1)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3556

Colors that go with #9ca399

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 #9ca399

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a099a3

#a1a399 · #99a39b

#999ca3 · #a3999c

Split-complementary

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#9b99a3 · #a399a1

#99a1a3 · #a099a3 · #a39b99

Contrast

#9ca399 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.59:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #70786d as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #525850 as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
8.11:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ca399 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

#9ca399 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9ca399
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 #9ca399 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ca399-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md