Color

#9eaea8

#9eaea8
hex#9eaea8
rgbrgb(158, 174, 168)
hslhsl(157, 9%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.737 0.02 171.3)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.4037

Colors that go with #9eaea8

Charcoal, Blue 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 #9eaea8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ae9ea4

#9eaea0 · #9eacae

#a89eae · #aea89e

Split-complementary

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#ae9eac · #aea09e

#a09eae · #ae9ea4 · #acae9e

Contrast

#9eaea8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.31:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #667a73 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5c56 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.12:1)
Aaon black
9.07:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9eaea8 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

#9eaea8 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9eaea8
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 #9eaea8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9eaea8-a2beb7-d459c4-1f2c2d-e9f1ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md