Open House
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Color
#969eb0
#969eb0
hex
#969eb0rgb
rgb(150, 158, 176)hsl
hsl(222, 14%, 64%)oklch
oklch(0.699 0.028 266.5)Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3407
Colors that go with #969eb0
Charcoal, Blush Pink 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #969eb0 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #969eb0, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #969eb0: 8 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #969eb0: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #969eb0 in 4 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #969eb0, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #969eb0: 5 real palettes, including Crypto.com's brand system and First Snow, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #969eb0 in 7 real palettes, including Sephora's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #969eb0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #969eb0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.69:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.81:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #969eb0 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 #969eb0
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #969eb0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/969eb0-9ca3c4-df6e4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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