Color

#98bdb1

#98bdb1
hex#98bdb1
rgbrgb(152, 189, 177)
hslhsl(161, 22%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.768 0.043 173.4)
Closest name: Lichen (#8ebaa6)Relative luminance 0.4624

Colors that go with #98bdb1

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 #98bdb1

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bd98a4

#98bd9f · #98b7bd

#b298bd · #bdb298

Split-complementary

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#bd98b7 · #bd9f98

#9f98bd · #bd98a4 · #b7bd98

Contrast

#98bdb1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.05:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #507c6e as the text (4.72:1)
  • AAA: use #3c5d53 as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
10.25:1passpasspassPasses 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 #98bdb1 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 #98bdb1
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 #98bdb1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/98bdb1-a2beb8-d459bb-1f2c2d-e9f1eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md