Color

#9398ae

#9398ae
hex#9398ae
rgbrgb(147, 152, 174)
hslhsl(229, 14%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.683 0.033 275.4)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3172

Colors that go with #9398ae

Charcoal, Dark Goldenrod and Blush Pink 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 #9398ae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aea993

#93a5ae · #9c93ae

#ae9398 · #98ae93

Split-complementary

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#ae9c93 · #a5ae93

#ae93a5 · #aea993 · #93ae9c

Contrast

#9398ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7491 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #53586e as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7:1)
Aaon black
7.34:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9398ae 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 #9398ae
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 #9398ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9398ae-9c9fc4-df7e4e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md