Color

#9ca4bf

#9ca4bf
hex#9ca4bf
rgbrgb(156, 164, 191)
hslhsl(226, 21%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.721 0.04 272.3)
Closest name: Imperial Lilac (#a99fcf)Relative luminance 0.3738

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bfb79c

#9cb5bf · #a59cbf

#bf9ca4 · #a4bf9c

Split-complementary

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#bfa59c · #b5bf9c

#bf9cb5 · #bfb79c · #9cbfa5

Contrast

#9ca4bf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.48:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #68749c as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #4f5878 as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.02:1)
Aaon black
8.48:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ca4bf 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 #9ca4bf
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 #9ca4bf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ca4bf-9ca1c4-df774e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md