Garden Wedding
Open in tool →Sage green, blush and a soft gold on ivory — the wedding palette of the decade, with text dark enough for an actual invitation.
Color
#9caa88
#9caa88
hex
#9caa88rgb
rgb(156, 170, 136)hsl
hsl(85, 17%, 60%)oklch
oklch(0.718 0.05 125.9)Closest name: Sage Green (#9caf88)Relative luminance 0.3759
Colors that go with #9caa88
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #9caa88: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #9caa88 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Estate put Blush Pink beside #9caa88, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #9caa88 in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom put Champagne beside #9caa88, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #9caa88: 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Bramble, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #9caa88 in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #9caa88: 4 real palettes, including Liquid Death's brand system and Spline's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #9caa88
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9caa88 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.47:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.52:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #9caa88 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 #9caa88
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #9caa88 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9caa88-afbea2-4e58df-212d1f-f1f0e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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