Color

#989bae

#989bae
hex#989bae
rgbrgb(152, 155, 174)
hslhsl(232, 12%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.693 0.028 278.5)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3317

Colors that go with #989bae

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.

Real palettes that use #989bae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aeab98

#98a6ae · #a098ae

#ae989b · #9bae98

Split-complementary

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#aea098 · #a6ae98

#ae98a6 · #aeab98 · #98aea0

Contrast

#989bae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #70748f as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #53566a as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.63:1passpasspassPasses 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 #989bae as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

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

tool url/palettes/new/989bae-9c9dc4-df864e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md