Color

#9fa197

#9fa197
hex#9fa197
rgbrgb(159, 161, 151)
hslhsl(72, 5%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.704 0.014 116)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.351

Colors that go with #9fa197

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 #9fa197

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9997a1

#a19e97 · #9aa197

#979fa1 · #a1979f

Split-complementary

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#979aa1 · #9e97a1

#97a19e · #9997a1 · #a1979a

Contrast

#9fa197 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #74766b as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #575850 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.02:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9fa197 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

#9fa197 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9fa197
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 #9fa197 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9fa197-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md