Color

#97939a

#97939a
hex#97939a
rgbrgb(151, 147, 154)
hslhsl(274, 3%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.669 0.011 311.1)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.2978

Colors that go with #97939a

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 #97939a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#969a93

#94939a · #9a9399

#9a9793 · #939a97

Split-complementary

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#999a93 · #939a94

#9a9493 · #969a93 · #93999a

Contrast

#97939a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #78747b as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #5a575c as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.69:1)
Aaon black
6.96:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #99969c as the text (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #97939a 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

#97939a reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #97939a
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 #97939a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/97939a-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md