Color

#87969b

#87969b
hex#87969b
rgbrgb(135, 150, 155)
hslhsl(195, 9%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.663 0.019 219.8)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.2933

Colors that go with #87969b

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 #87969b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9b8c87

#879b96 · #878c9b

#9b8796 · #969b87

Split-complementary

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#9b878c · #9b9687

#96879b · #9b8c87 · #8c9b87

Contrast

#87969b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.06:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #68787d as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #4f5b5f as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.63:1)
Aaon black
6.87:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8a999e as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #87969b as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#87969b reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #87969b
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 #87969b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/87969b-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md