Color

#998f97

#998f97
hex#998f97
rgbrgb(153, 143, 151)
hslhsl(312, 5%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.661 0.016 332.4)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.2865

Colors that go with #998f97

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #998f97

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#8f9991

#968f99 · #998f92

#97998f · #8f9799

Split-complementary

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#92998f · #8f9996

#99968f · #8f9991 · #8f9299

Contrast

#998f97 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.12:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #7e727b as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #5e555c as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.54:1)
Aaon black
6.73:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9e949c as the text (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #998f97 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

#998f97 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #998f97
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 #998f97 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/998f97-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md