Color
#966e86
#966e86rgb(150, 110, 134)hsl(324, 16%, 51%)oklch(0.586 0.061 342.4)Colors that go with #966e86
Charcoal, Sea Green and Champagne 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #966e86: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #966e86: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #966e86, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #966e86: 4 real palettes, including Atelier and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #966e86, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #966e86, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #966e86: 5 real palettes, including Graphite and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #966e86 in 19 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Greige, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #966e86
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #966e86 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.31:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.87:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #966e86 as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#966e86 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
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