Color

#989d7b

#989d7b
hex#989d7b
rgbrgb(152, 157, 123)
hslhsl(69, 15%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.683 0.048 114.5)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.3222

Colors that go with #989d7b

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blue 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 #989d7b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#807b9d

#9d917b · #879d7b

#7b989d · #9d7b98

Split-complementary

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#7b879d · #917b9d

#7b9d91 · #807b9d · #9d7b87

Contrast

#989d7b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747859 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #575b43 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.44:1passpasspassPasses 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 #989d7b 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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #989d7b
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 #989d7b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/989d7b-b7bea2-4e7edf-252d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md