Color

#83958b

#83958b
hex#83958b
rgbrgb(131, 149, 139)
hslhsl(147, 8%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.653 0.025 161.4)
Closest name: Aloe Tip (#8a9480)Relative luminance 0.2818

Colors that go with #83958b

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #83958b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#95838d

#849583 · #839595

#8b8395 · #958b83

Split-complementary

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#958395 · #958384

#838495 · #95838d · #959583

Contrast

#83958b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.16:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #67796f as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5b53 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.64:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #899a90 as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #83958b 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

#83958b reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #83958b
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 #83958b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/83958b-a2beb2-d059d4-1f2d2c-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md