Color

#89999a

#89999a
hex#89999a
rgbrgb(137, 153, 154)
hslhsl(184, 8%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.671 0.018 201.3)
Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.3043

Colors that go with #89999a

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 #89999a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9a8a89

#899a93 · #89909a

#9a8999 · #999a89

Split-complementary

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#9a8990 · #9a9389

#93899a · #9a8a89 · #909a89

Contrast

#89999a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #677879 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5a5b as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.09:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #89999a 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

#89999a reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #89999a
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 #89999a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/89999a-a2b9be-df4e8a-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md