Color

#9da9aa

#9da9aa
hex#9da9aa
rgbrgb(157, 169, 170)
hslhsl(185, 7%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.726 0.014 202.9)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3845

Colors that go with #9da9aa

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 #9da9aa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aa9e9d

#9daaa4 · #9da2aa

#aa9da9 · #a9aa9d

Split-complementary

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#aa9da2 · #aaa49d

#a49daa · #aa9e9d · #a2aa9d

Contrast

#9da9aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.42:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6b797b as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #4e595a as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9da9aa 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

#9da9aa reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9da9aa
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 #9da9aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9da9aa-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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