Color

#959cb7

#959cb7
hex#959cb7
rgbrgb(149, 156, 183)
hslhsl(228, 19%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.696 0.04 273.9)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3359

Colors that go with #959cb7

Charcoal, Sand and Copper 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 #959cb7

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b7b095

#95adb7 · #9f95b7

#b7959c · #9cb795

Split-complementary

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#b79f95 · #adb795

#b795ad · #b7b095 · #95b79f

Contrast

#959cb7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.72:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6a749a as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #4e5673 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.72:1passpasspassPasses 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 #959cb7 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 #959cb7
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 #959cb7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/959cb7-9c9fc4-df7c4e-231f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md