Color

#94979e

#94979e
hex#94979e
rgbrgb(148, 151, 158)
hslhsl(222, 5%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.676 0.011 267.3)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.309

Colors that go with #94979e

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 #94979e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9e9b94

#949c9e · #96949e

#9e9497 · #979e94

Split-complementary

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#9e9694 · #9c9e94

#9e949c · #9e9b94 · #949e96

Contrast

#94979e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.92:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #72757e as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #55575e as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.18:1passpasspassPasses 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 #94979e 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

#94979e reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #94979e
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 #94979e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/94979e-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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