Color
#9cb899
#9cb899rgb(156, 184, 153)hsl(114, 18%, 66%)oklch(0.753 0.053 142.4)Colors that go with #9cb899
Charcoal, Plum and Champagne 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 #9cb899: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryshippedPlum sits directly opposite #9cb899 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #9cb899 in 5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Bramble, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #9cb899 in 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #9cb899 in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Forest Floor, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #9cb899 in 6 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Desert Road, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
shippedPeru is paired with #9cb899 in 4 real palettes, including Paper & Pine and Estate, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #9cb899 in 13 real palettes, including Greige and Mushroom, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #9cb899
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9cb899 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.16:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.73:1 | 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 #9cb899 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #9cb899 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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