Color

#89949a

#89949a
hex#89949a
rgbrgb(137, 148, 154)
hslhsl(201, 8%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.66 0.016 231.3)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.2883

Colors that go with #89949a

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 #89949a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9a8f89

#899a97 · #898b9a

#9a8994 · #949a89

Split-complementary

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#9a898b · #9a9789

#97899a · #9a8f89 · #8b9a89

Contrast

#89949a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.1:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6c787f as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #50595e as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.77:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8e999f as the text (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #89949a 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

#89949a reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #89949a
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 #89949a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/89949a-9cb1c4-df4e62-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md