Color

#9fa659

#9fa659
hex#9fa659
rgbrgb(159, 166, 89)
hslhsl(65, 30%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.702 0.101 113.3)
Closest name: Cardamom (#aaaa77)Relative luminance 0.3536

Colors that go with #9fa659

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue 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 #9fa659

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6059a6

#a68659 · #79a659

#599fa6 · #a6599f

Split-complementary

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#5979a6 · #8659a6

#59a686 · #6059a6 · #a65979

Contrast

#9fa659 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.6:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #737740 as the text (4.73:1)
  • AAA: use #565a30 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
8.07:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9fa659 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9fa659
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 #9fa659 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9fa659-b8bea2-4e88df-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md