Color

#9fa09c

#9fa09c
hex#9fa09c
rgbrgb(159, 160, 156)
hslhsl(75, 2%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.704 0.006 118)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3491

Colors that go with #9fa09c

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 #9fa09c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9d9ca0

#a09f9c · #9da09c

#9c9fa0 · #a09c9f

Split-complementary

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#9c9da0 · #9f9ca0

#9ca09f · #9d9ca0 · #a09c9d

Contrast

#9fa09c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.63:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747570 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #585855 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7:1)
Aaon black
7.98:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9fa09c 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

#9fa09c reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9fa09c
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 #9fa09c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9fa09c-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md