Color

#98a8a9

#98a8a9
hex#98a8a9
rgbrgb(152, 168, 169)
hslhsl(184, 9%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.719 0.018 201.3)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3755

Colors that go with #98a8a9

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 #98a8a9

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a99998

#98a9a2 · #98a0a9

#a998a8 · #a8a998

Split-complementary

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#a998a0 · #a9a298

#a298a9 · #a99998 · #a0a998

Contrast

#98a8a9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.47:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #66797a as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5b5c as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.51:1passpasspassPasses 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 #98a8a9 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

#98a8a9 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #98a8a9
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 #98a8a9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/98a8a9-a2b9be-df4e8a-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md