Studio Grey
Open in tool →A pure greyscale with a single electric blue — the portfolio palette that makes work look considered.
Color
#889096
#889096
hex
#889096rgb
rgb(136, 144, 150)hsl
hsl(206, 6%, 56%)oklch
oklch(0.649 0.013 240)Closest name: Argent (#888888)Relative luminance 0.2738
Colors that go with #889096
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #889096 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #889096, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #889096 in 5 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Darkroom put Champagne beside #889096, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #889096: 6 real palettes, including Atelier and Dusk, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #889096: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Open House and Plaid's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #889096, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #889096, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #889096
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #889096 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.24:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.48:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #889096 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
Ink Wash
Open in tool →Greys on near-black — the monochrome dark mode; keep everything a tint of white and the layout does the talking.
Fonts for this mood
#889096 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #889096
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #889096 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/889096-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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