Color

#9e9c8a

#9e9c8a
hex#9e9c8a
rgbrgb(158, 156, 138)
hslhsl(54, 9%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.026 101.9)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3288

Colors that go with #9e9c8a

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #9e9c8a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8a8c9e

#9e928a · #969e8a

#8a9e9c · #9c8a9e

Split-complementary

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#8a969e · #928a9e

#8a9e92 · #8a8c9e · #9e8a96

Contrast

#9e9c8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #787664 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #59574a as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.58:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9e9c8a as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#9e9c8a reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9e9c8a
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 #9e9c8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9e9c8a-bebea2-4ea2df-292d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md