Color

#998f8f

#998f8f
hex#998f8f
rgbrgb(153, 143, 143)
hslhsl(0, 5%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.659 0.012 17.5)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.284

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8f9999

#998f94 · #99948f

#8f998f · #8f8f99

Split-complementary

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#8f9994 · #8f9499

#94998f · #8f9999 · #948f99

Contrast

#998f8f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.14:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #7e7272 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #605757 as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.5:1)
Aaon black
6.68:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9e9494 as the text (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #998f8f 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

#998f8f reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #998f8f
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #998f8f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/998f8f-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md