Color

#989f8e

#989f8e
hex#989f8e
rgbrgb(152, 159, 142)
hslhsl(85, 8%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.692 0.026 125.4)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3342

Colors that go with #989f8e

Charcoal, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #989f8e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#958e9f

#9f9d8e · #8f9f8e

#8e989f · #9f8e98

Split-complementary

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#8e8f9f · #9d8e9f

#8e9f9d · #958e9f · #9f8e8f

Contrast

#989f8e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.73:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #727967 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #555b4d as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.68:1passpasspassPasses 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 #989f8e 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

#989f8e reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #989f8e
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 #989f8e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/989f8e-afbea2-4e58df-212d1f-f1f0e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md