Color

#999685

#999685
hex#999685
rgbrgb(153, 150, 133)
hslhsl(51, 9%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.671 0.025 98.8)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3028

Colors that go with #999685

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 #999685

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#858899

#998c85 · #929985

#859996 · #968599

Split-complementary

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#859299 · #8c8599

#85998c · #858899 · #998592

Contrast

#999685 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.98:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a7766 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #5c594d as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.06:1passpasspassPasses 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 #999685 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

#999685 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #999685
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 #999685 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/999685-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md