Color

#9ea8a9

#9ea8a9
hex#9ea8a9
rgbrgb(158, 168, 169)
hslhsl(185, 6%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.724 0.011 204.1)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3814

Colors that go with #9ea8a9

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 #9ea8a9

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a99f9e

#9ea9a4 · #9ea2a9

#a99ea8 · #a8a99e

Split-complementary

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#a99ea2 · #a9a49e

#a49ea9 · #a99f9e · #a2a99e

Contrast

#9ea8a9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.43:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6c787a as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #4f5859 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7:1)
Aaon black
8.63:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9ea8a9 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

#9ea8a9 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9ea8a9
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 #9ea8a9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9ea8a9-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md