Color

#9fb7ae

#9fb7ae
hex#9fb7ae
rgbrgb(159, 183, 174)
hslhsl(158, 14%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.759 0.029 170.9)
Closest name: Alpine Air (#a9b4a9)Relative luminance 0.4429

Colors that go with #9fb7ae

Charcoal, Blue and Champagne 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 #9fb7ae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b79fa8

#9fb7a2 · #9fb3b7

#ae9fb7 · #b7ae9f

Split-complementary

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#b79fb3 · #b7a29f

#a29fb7 · #b79fa8 · #b3b79f

Contrast

#9fb7ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.13:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5e7d72 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #465d55 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
9.86:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9fb7ae 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 #9fb7ae
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 #9fb7ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9fb7ae-a2beb7-d459c2-1f2c2d-e9f1eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md