Color

#9fa17d

#9fa17d
hex#9fa17d
rgbrgb(159, 161, 125)
hslhsl(63, 16%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.698 0.05 110.3)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.3434

Colors that go with #9fa17d

Charcoal, Lilac and Blue 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 #9fa17d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7f7da1

#a1917d · #8da17d

#7d9fa1 · #a17d9f

Split-complementary

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#7d8da1 · #917da1

#7da191 · #7f7da1 · #a17d8d

Contrast

#9fa17d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #757656 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #585940 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.87:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9fa17d 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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9fa17d
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 #9fa17d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9fa17d-b9bea2-4e8ddf-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md