Color

#989386

#989386
hex#989386
rgbrgb(152, 147, 134)
hslhsl(43, 8%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.664 0.02 89.4)
Closest name: Aloe Tip (#8a9480)Relative luminance 0.2926

Colors that go with #989386

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 #989386

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#868b98

#988a86 · #949886

#869893 · #938698

Split-complementary

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#869498 · #8a8698

#86988a · #868b98 · #988694

Contrast

#989386 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.06:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #797467 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #5b574d as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.62:1)
Aaon black
6.85:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9a9589 as the text (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #989386 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

#989386 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #989386
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 #989386 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/989386-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md