Color

#889496

#889496
hex#889496
rgbrgb(136, 148, 150)
hslhsl(189, 6%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.657 0.014 208.8)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.2862

Colors that go with #889496

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 #889496

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#968a88

#889691 · #888d96

#968894 · #949688

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#96888d · #969188

#918896 · #968a88 · #8d9688

Contrast

#889496 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.12:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6c787a as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #515a5c as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.53:1)
Aaon black
6.72:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8d989a 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 #889496 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

#889496 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #889496
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 #889496 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/889496-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md