Color

#989ca4

#989ca4
hex#989ca4
rgbrgb(152, 156, 164)
hslhsl(220, 6%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.692 0.013 264.5)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3313

Colors that go with #989ca4

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 #989ca4

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#a4a098

#98a2a4 · #9a98a4

#a4989c · #9ca498

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#a49a98 · #a2a498

#a498a2 · #a4a098 · #98a49a

Contrast

#989ca4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #71757f as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #54575f as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.06:1)
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 #989ca4 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

#989ca4 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #989ca4
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 #989ca4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/989ca4-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md