Color

#9e97aa

#9e97aa
hex#9e97aa
rgbrgb(158, 151, 170)
hslhsl(262, 10%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.029 302.4)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.323

Colors that go with #9e97aa

Charcoal, Copper and Denim 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 #9e97aa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a3aa97

#979aaa · #a897aa

#aa9e97 · #97aa9e

Split-complementary

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#aaa897 · #9aaa97

#aa979a · #a3aa97 · #97aaa8

Contrast

#9e97aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.81:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a7089 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #5c5568 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.46:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9e97aa 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 #9e97aa
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 #9e97aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9e97aa-af9cc4-dfce4e-2a1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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