Color

#90959d

#90959d
hex#90959d
rgbrgb(144, 149, 157)
hslhsl(217, 6%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.668 0.013 259.8)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.2986

Colors that go with #90959d

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 #90959d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9d9890

#909b9d · #92909d

#9d9095 · #959d90

Split-complementary

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#9d9290 · #9b9d90

#9d909b · #9d9890 · #909d92

Contrast

#90959d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.01:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #71767f as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #54585f as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.97:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #93989f as the text (7.23:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #90959d 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

#90959d reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #90959d
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 #90959d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/90959d-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md