Color

#9fa296

#9fa296
hex#9fa296
rgbrgb(159, 162, 150)
hslhsl(75, 6%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.706 0.017 118.3)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3541

Colors that go with #9fa296

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 #9fa296

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9996a2

#a29f96 · #99a296

#969fa2 · #a2969f

Split-complementary

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#9699a2 · #9f96a2

#96a29f · #9996a2 · #a29699

Contrast

#9fa296 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.6:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747769 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #57594f as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
8.08:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9fa296 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

#9fa296 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9fa296
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 #9fa296 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9fa296-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md