Color

#989fb9

#989fb9
hex#989fb9
rgbrgb(152, 159, 185)
hslhsl(227, 19%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.706 0.039 273.5)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3497

Colors that go with #989fb9

Charcoal, Sand 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#b9b298

#98afb9 · #a198b9

#b9989f · #9fb998

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#b9a198 · #afb998

#b998af · #b9b298 · #98b9a1

Contrast

#989fb9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.63:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6a759a as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #4e5673 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #989fb9 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 #989fb9
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 #989fb9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/989fb9-9ca0c4-df7a4e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md