Color

#98bdaf

#98bdaf
hex#98bdaf
rgbrgb(152, 189, 175)
hslhsl(157, 22%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.767 0.045 170.1)
Closest name: Lichen (#8ebaa6)Relative luminance 0.4617

Colors that go with #98bdaf

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #98bdaf

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bd98a7

#98bd9d · #98b9bd

#af98bd · #bdaf98

Split-complementary

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#bd98b9 · #bd9d98

#9d98bd · #bd98a7 · #b9bd98

Contrast

#98bdaf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.05:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #507c6b as the text (4.73:1)
  • AAA: use #3c5d50 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
10.23:1passpasspassPasses 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 #98bdaf 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 #98bdaf
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 #98bdaf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/98bdaf-a2beb7-d459c4-1f2c2d-e9f1ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md