Color

#9fa573

#9fa573
hex#9fa573
rgbrgb(159, 165, 115)
hslhsl(67, 22%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.704 0.069 113.8)
Closest name: Cardamom (#aaaa77)Relative luminance 0.3552

Colors that go with #9fa573

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#7973a5

#a59273 · #86a573

#73a0a5 · #a573a0

Split-complementary

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#7386a5 · #9273a5

#73a592 · #7973a5 · #a57386

Contrast

#9fa573 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.59:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #74794e as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #565a3a as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
8.1:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9fa573 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 #9fa573
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 #9fa573 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9fa573-b8bea2-4e83df-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md