Color

#87989b

#87989b
hex#87989b
rgbrgb(135, 152, 155)
hslhsl(189, 9%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.667 0.02 209.4)
Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.2997

Colors that go with #87989b

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 #87989b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#9b8a87

#879b94 · #878e9b

#9b8798 · #989b87

Split-complementary

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#9b878e · #9b9487

#94879b · #9b8a87 · #8e9b87

Contrast

#87989b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #66777a as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #4d595c as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.99:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8a9b9e as the text (7.26:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #87989b 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

#87989b reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #87989b
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 #87989b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/87989b-a2b7be-df4e7e-1f252d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md