Color

#989a89

#989a89
hex#989a89
rgbrgb(152, 154, 137)
hslhsl(67, 8%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.68 0.024 112.5)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3159

Colors that go with #989a89

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 #989a89

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8b899a

#9a9389 · #8f9a89

#89989a · #9a8998

Split-complementary

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#898f9a · #93899a

#899a93 · #8b899a · #9a898f

Contrast

#989a89 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747665 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #57584b as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.32:1passpasspassPasses 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 #989a89 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

#989a89 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #989a89
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 #989a89 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/989a89-b8bea2-4e83df-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md