Color

#9ca696

#9ca696
hex#9ca696
rgbrgb(156, 166, 150)
hslhsl(97, 8%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.713 0.025 133.5)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3654

Colors that go with #9ca696

Charcoal, Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #9ca696

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a096a6

#a4a696 · #96a698

#969ca6 · #a6969c

Split-complementary

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#9896a6 · #a696a4

#96a4a6 · #a096a6 · #a69896

Contrast

#9ca696 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.53:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7967 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #535b4d as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
8.31:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ca696 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#9ca696 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9ca696
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 #9ca696 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ca696-a9bea2-624edf-1f2d20-f0f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md