Color

#9fa885

#9fa885
hex#9fa885
rgbrgb(159, 168, 133)
hslhsl(75, 17%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.715 0.05 119.4)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3707

Colors that go with #9fa885

Charcoal, Lilac and Blush Pink 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

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#8e85a8

#a89f85 · #8ea885

#859fa8 · #a8859f

Split-complementary

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#858ea8 · #9f85a8

#85a89f · #8e85a8 · #a8858e

Contrast

#9fa885 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.5:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #717a57 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #535a3f as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.18:1)
Aaon black
8.41:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9fa885 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 #9fa885
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 #9fa885 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9fa885-b4bea2-4e70df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md