Color

#96a2a2

#96a2a2
hex#96a2a2
rgbrgb(150, 162, 162)
hslhsl(180, 6%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.703 0.014 196.8)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3493

Colors that go with #96a2a2

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 #96a2a2

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a29696

#96a29c · #969ca2

#a296a2 · #a2a296

Split-complementary

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#a2969c · #a29c96

#9c96a2 · #a29696 · #9ca296

Contrast

#96a2a2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.63:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #697777 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #4f5959 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #96a2a2 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

#96a2a2 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #96a2a2
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 #96a2a2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/96a2a2-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md