Color

#9eaaae

#9eaaae
hex#9eaaae
rgbrgb(158, 170, 174)
hslhsl(195, 9%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.73 0.015 219.7)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3907

Colors that go with #9eaaae

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 #9eaaae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aea29e

#9eaeaa · #9ea2ae

#ae9eaa · #aaae9e

Split-complementary

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#ae9ea2 · #aeaa9e

#aa9eae · #aea29e · #a2ae9e

Contrast

#9eaaae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.38:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #68787d as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #4f5b5f as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.15:1)
Aaon black
8.81:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9eaaae 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

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

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

tool url/palettes/new/9eaaae-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md