Color

Dusky Mood

#979ba8
hex#979ba8
rgbrgb(151, 155, 168)
hslhsl(226, 9%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.69 0.02 272.2)
Relative luminance 0.3285

Colors that go with Dusky Mood

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 Dusky Mood

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#a9a598

#98a5a9 · #9d98a9

#a9989c · #9ca998

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#a99d98 · #a5a998

#a998a5 · #a9a598 · #98a99d

Contrast

Dusky Mood as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6f7585 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #545764 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.57:1passpasspassPasses 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 Dusky Mood 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

Dusky Mood reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around Dusky Mood
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 #979ba8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/979ba8-9ca1c4-df774e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md