Color

#989ca9

#989ca9
hex#989ca9
rgbrgb(152, 156, 169)
hslhsl(226, 9%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.694 0.02 272.2)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3332

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a9a598

#98a5a9 · #9d98a9

#a9989c · #9ca998

Split-complementary

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#a99d98 · #a5a998

#a998a5 · #a9a598 · #98a99d

Contrast

#989ca9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.74:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6f7585 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #545764 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.66:1passpasspassPasses 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 #989ca9 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#989ca9 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #989ca9
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #989ca9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/989ca9-9ca1c4-df774e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md