Color

#85998c

#85998c
hex#85998c
rgbrgb(133, 153, 140)
hslhsl(141, 9%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.663 0.03 157)
Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.2966

Colors that go with #85998c

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 #85998c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#998592

#889985 · #859996

#8c8599 · #998c85

Split-complementary

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#968599 · #998588

#858899 · #998592 · #999685

Contrast

#85998c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.03:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #667a6d as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5c52 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.67:1)
Aaon black
6.93:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #879b8e as the text (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #85998c 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

#85998c reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #85998c
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 #85998c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/85998c-a2beaf-c459d4-1f2d2a-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md