Color

#99988a

#99988a
hex#99988a
rgbrgb(153, 152, 138)
hslhsl(56, 7%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.676 0.02 103.6)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3106

Colors that go with #99988a

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 #99988a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#8a8b99

#99908a · #92998a

#8a9998 · #988a99

Split-complementary

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#8a9299 · #908a99

#8a9990 · #8a8b99 · #998a92

Contrast

#99988a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #787768 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #5a594e as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7:1)
Aaon black
7.21:1passpasspassPasses 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 #99988a 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

#99988a reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #99988a
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 #99988a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/99988a-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md