Color
#9894a4
#9894a4rgb(152, 148, 164)hsl(255, 8%, 61%)oklch(0.675 0.024 297.2)Colors that go with #9894a4
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Copper 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 text near-black that reads cleanly against #9894a4 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #9894a4, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #9894a4: 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9894a4: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #9894a4, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #9894a4: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Stone, as the lead colour.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedDesigners have shipped Wheat with #9894a4: 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Still Water, as the accent.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9894a4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.95:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.11:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #9894a4 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
#9894a4 reads as muted, minimal. 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 #9894a4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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