Color
#998a97
#998a97rgb(153, 138, 151)hsl(308, 7%, 57%)oklch(0.651 0.026 330.2)Colors that go with #998a97
Charcoal, Blush Pink 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #998a97 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #998a97, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Darkroom put Champagne beside #998a97, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #998a97: 6 real palettes, including Atelier and Dusk, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #998a97: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #998a97, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #998a97: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Stone, as the lead colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #998a97: 4 real palettes, including Homestead and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #998a97
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #998a97 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.26:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.44:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #998a97 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
#998a97 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #998a97 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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