Color

#8f9699

#8f9699
hex#8f9699
rgbrgb(143, 150, 153)
hslhsl(198, 5%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.668 0.009 225.1)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.2995

Colors that go with #8f9699

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 #8f9699

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99928f

#8f9997 · #8f9199

#998f96 · #96998f

Split-complementary

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#998f91 · #99978f

#978f99 · #99928f · #91998f

Contrast

#8f9699 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6f787b as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #52585b as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.99:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #91999c as the text (7.24:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8f9699 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

#8f9699 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8f9699
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 #8f9699 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8f9699-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md