Color

#9caba5

#9caba5
hex#9caba5
rgbrgb(156, 171, 165)
hslhsl(156, 8%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.728 0.019 169.9)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3891

Colors that go with #9caba5

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 #9caba5

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ab9ca2

#9cab9d · #9ca9ab

#a59cab · #aba59c

Split-complementary

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#ab9ca9 · #ab9d9c

#9d9cab · #ab9ca2 · #a9ab9c

Contrast

#9caba5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.39:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #677972 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5b55 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.13:1)
Aaon black
8.78:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9caba5 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

#9caba5 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9caba5
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 #9caba5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9caba5-a2beb6-d459c6-1f2d2d-e9f1ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md