Color

#989f7f

#989f7f
hex#989f7f
rgbrgb(152, 159, 127)
hslhsl(73, 14%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.688 0.046 117.6)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.33

Colors that go with #989f7f

Charcoal, Lilac 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 #989f7f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#867f9f

#9f967f · #889f7f

#7f989f · #9f7f98

Split-complementary

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#7f889f · #967f9f

#7f9f96 · #867f9f · #9f7f88

Contrast

#989f7f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #71775a as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #555a44 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.6:1passpasspassPasses 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 #989f7f 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 #989f7f
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 #989f7f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/989f7f-b5bea2-4e75df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md