Color

#899f9d

#899f9d
hex#899f9d
rgbrgb(137, 159, 157)
hslhsl(175, 10%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.685 0.025 189.9)
Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.3255

Colors that go with #899f9d

Charcoal, Blue 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 #899f9d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9f898b

#899f92 · #89969f

#9d899f · #9f9d89

Split-complementary

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#9f8996 · #9f9289

#92899f · #9f898b · #969f89

Contrast

#899f9d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #637977 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #495a58 as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.51:1passpasspassPasses 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 #899f9d 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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #899f9d
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 #899f9d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/899f9d-a2bdbe-d4599f-1f282d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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