Color

#9eaead

#9eaead
hex#9eaead
rgbrgb(158, 174, 173)
hslhsl(176, 9%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.738 0.018 192.2)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.4056

Colors that go with #9eaead

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #9eaead

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ae9e9f

#9eaea5 · #9ea7ae

#ad9eae · #aead9e

Split-complementary

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#ae9ea7 · #aea59e

#a59eae · #ae9e9f · #a7ae9e

Contrast

#9eaead as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #667a79 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5c5b as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.71:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.15:1)
Aaon black
9.11:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9eaead 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

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

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

tool url/palettes/new/9eaead-a2bdbe-d4599d-1f282d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md