Color

#89969a

#89969a
hex#89969a
rgbrgb(137, 150, 154)
hslhsl(194, 8%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.664 0.016 218.1)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.2946

Colors that go with #89969a

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 #89969a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9a8d89

#899a95 · #898d9a

#9a8996 · #969a89

Split-complementary

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#9a898d · #9a9589

#95899a · #9a8d89 · #8d9a89

Contrast

#89969a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.05:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6a787c as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #505a5e as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.65:1)
Aaon black
6.89:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8b989c as the text (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #89969a 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

#89969a reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #89969a
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 #89969a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/89969a-9cb6c4-df4e72-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md