Color

#969ba6

#969ba6
hex#969ba6
rgbrgb(150, 155, 166)
hslhsl(221, 8%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.017 266.2)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3268

Colors that go with #969ba6

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 #969ba6

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a6a196

#96a3a6 · #9996a6

#a6969b · #9ba696

Split-complementary

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#a69996 · #a3a696

#a696a3 · #a6a196 · #96a699

Contrast

#969ba6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7481 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #545963 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.54:1passpasspassPasses 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 #969ba6 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

#969ba6 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #969ba6
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 #969ba6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/969ba6-9ca4c4-df6b4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md