Named color

A Frond in Need

#9f9978
hex#9f9978
rgbrgb(159, 153, 120)
hslhsl(51, 17%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.679 0.047 98.9)
Relative luminance 0.3151

A Frond In Need on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.

Colors that go with A Frond in Need

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue 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.

Real palettes that use A Frond in Need

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#797fa0

#a08679 · #92a079

#79a09a · #9a79a0

Split-complementary

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#7992a0 · #8679a0

#79a086 · #797fa0 · #a07992

Contrast

A Frond in Need as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a7557 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #5c5842 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.3:1passpasspassPasses 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 A Frond in Need as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

A Frond in Need reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around A Frond in Need
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 #9f9978 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9f9978-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md