Color

#949499

#949499
hex#949499
rgbrgb(148, 148, 153)
hslhsl(240, 2%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.668 0.007 286.2)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.2978

Colors that go with #949499

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 #949499

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#999994

#949699 · #969499

#999494 · #949994

Split-complementary

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#999694 · #969994

#999496 · #999994 · #949996

Contrast

#949499 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #75757a as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #57575b as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.69:1)
Aaon black
6.96:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #97979b as the text (7.22:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #949499 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#949499 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #949499
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 #949499 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/949499-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md