Color

#9ca5ba

#9ca5ba
hex#9ca5ba
rgbrgb(156, 165, 186)
hslhsl(222, 18%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.722 0.032 267.1)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3752

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bab19c

#9cb4ba · #a29cba

#ba9ca5 · #a5ba9c

Split-complementary

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#baa29c · #b4ba9c

#ba9cb4 · #bab19c · #9cbaa2

Contrast

#9ca5ba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.47:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #697696 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #4d586f as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.5:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ca5ba 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 #9ca5ba
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 #9ca5ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ca5ba-9ca3c4-df6e4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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