Color

#969588

#969588
hex#969588
rgbrgb(150, 149, 136)
hslhsl(56, 6%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.667 0.019 103.3)
Closest name: Aloe Tip (#8a9480)Relative luminance 0.2976

Colors that go with #969588

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 #969588

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#888996

#968e88 · #909688

#889695 · #958896

Split-complementary

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#889096 · #8e8896

#88968e · #888996 · #968890

Contrast

#969588 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #777669 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #59594f as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.69:1)
Aaon black
6.95:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #98978b as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #969588 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#969588 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #969588
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 #969588 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/969588-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md