Color

#989090

#989090
hex#989090
rgbrgb(152, 144, 144)
hslhsl(0, 4%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.66 0.01 17.4)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.2864

Colors that go with #989090

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 #989090

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#909898

#989094 · #989490

#909890 · #909098

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#909894 · #909498

#949890 · #909898 · #949098

Contrast

#989090 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.12:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #7d7373 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #5d5656 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.54:1)
Aaon black
6.73:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9d9595 as the text (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #989090 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

#989090 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #989090
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 #989090 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/989090-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md