Color

#6c9995

#6c9995
hex#6c9995
rgbrgb(108, 153, 149)
hslhsl(175, 18%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.649 0.049 189.1)
Closest name: cadetblue (#5f9ea0)Relative luminance 0.2814

Colors that go with #6c9995

Charcoal, Copper 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 #6c9995

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#996c6f

#6c997e · #6c8699

#956c99 · #99956c

Split-complementary

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#996c86 · #997e6c

#7e6c99 · #996c6f · #86996c

Contrast

#6c9995 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.17:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #567b78 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #415d5b as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.63:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #759f9b as the text (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #6c9995 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 #6c9995
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 #6c9995 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/6c9995-a2bdbe-d4599f-1f282d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md