Color

#9e8ea4

#9e8ea4
hex#9e8ea4
rgbrgb(158, 142, 164)
hslhsl(284, 11%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.668 0.037 316.8)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.293

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#94a48e

#938ea4 · #a48e9f

#a49e8e · #8ea49e

Split-complementary

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#9fa48e · #8ea493

#a4938e · #94a48e · #8e9fa4

Contrast

#9e8ea4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.06:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #836f8b as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #615266 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.62:1)
Aaon black
6.86:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a191a6 as the text (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9e8ea4 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9e8ea4
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #9e8ea4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9e8ea4-bc9fc1-b1cb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md