Color

#98b9af

#98b9af
hex#98b9af
rgbrgb(152, 185, 175)
hslhsl(162, 19%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.758 0.039 174.9)
Closest name: Lichen (#8ebaa6)Relative luminance 0.4447

Colors that go with #98b9af

Charcoal, Blue and Champagne 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 #98b9af

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b998a2

#98b99e · #98b2b9

#af98b9 · #b9af98

Split-complementary

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#b998b2 · #b99e98

#9e98b9 · #b998a2 · #b2b998

Contrast

#98b9af as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.12:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #557c70 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #405e55 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
9.89:1passpasspassPasses 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 #98b9af as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #98b9af
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 #98b9af and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/98b9af-a2beb9-d459b9-1f2b2d-e9f1eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md