Color
#98717b
#98717brgb(152, 113, 123)hsl(345, 16%, 52%)oklch(0.591 0.051 1.8)Colors that go with #98717b
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Champagne 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 body-text near-black for #98717b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #98717b, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #98717b, as that palette's text colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #98717b, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #98717b in 4 real palettes, including Gallery and Noir Beauty, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #98717b: 5 real palettes, including Graphite and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Tan #d2b48c
shippedTan is paired with #98717b in 4 real palettes, including Mushroom and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
complementaryDark Cyan sits directly opposite #98717b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #98717b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #98717b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.21:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.98:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #98717b 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
#98717b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #98717b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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