Color

#949f6f

#949f6f
hex#949f6f
rgbrgb(148, 159, 111)
hslhsl(74, 20%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.681 0.068 118.7)
Closest name: Buckingham Gardens (#89a068)Relative luminance 0.3224

Colors that go with #949f6f

Charcoal, Medium Purple and Blue 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 #949f6f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7a6f9f

#9f926f · #7c9f6f

#6f949f · #9f6f94

Split-complementary

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#6f7c9f · #926f9f

#6f9f92 · #7a6f9f · #9f6f7c

Contrast

#949f6f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #717a52 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #555c3d as the text (7.04:1)
  • 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 #949f6f 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 #949f6f
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 #949f6f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/949f6f-b4bea2-4e72df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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