Color

#949aa8

#949aa8
hex#949aa8
rgbrgb(148, 154, 168)
hslhsl(222, 10%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.686 0.022 267.2)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3223

Colors that go with #949aa8

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 #949aa8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a8a294

#94a4a8 · #9894a8

#a8949a · #9aa894

Split-complementary

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#a89894 · #a4a894

#a894a4 · #a8a294 · #94a898

Contrast

#949aa8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7687 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #535865 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.45:1passpasspassPasses 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 #949aa8 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 #949aa8
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 #949aa8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/949aa8-9ca3c4-df6e4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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