Color

#9ca687

#9ca687
hex#9ca687
rgbrgb(156, 166, 135)
hslhsl(79, 15%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.709 0.045 122.1)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3609

Colors that go with #9ca687

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

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#9187a6

#a6a087 · #8da687

#879ca6 · #a6879c

Split-complementary

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#878da6 · #a087a6

#87a6a0 · #9187a6 · #a6878d

Contrast

#9ca687 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.56:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7859 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #535b43 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
8.22:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ca687 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 #9ca687
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 #9ca687 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ca687-b2bea2-4e66df-232d1f-f1f0e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md