Color

#6c9998

#6c9998
hex#6c9998
rgbrgb(108, 153, 152)
hslhsl(179, 18%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.65 0.049 194.3)
Closest name: cadetblue (#5f9ea0)Relative luminance 0.2824

Colors that go with #6c9998

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 #6c9998

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#996c6c

#6c9981 · #6c8399

#986c99 · #99986c

Split-complementary

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#996c83 · #99816c

#816c99 · #996c6c · #83996c

Contrast

#6c9998 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.16:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #567b7b as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #415d5d as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.61:1)
Aaon black
6.65:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #729d9c as the text (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #6c9998 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 #6c9998
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 #6c9998 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/6c9998-a2bbbe-d45996-1f272d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md