Color

#999a7e

#999a7e
hex#999a7e
rgbrgb(153, 154, 126)
hslhsl(62, 12%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.678 0.04 109.1)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3139

Colors that go with #999a7e

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blue 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 #999a7e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7f7e9a

#9a8d7e · #8b9a7e

#7e999a · #9a7e99

Split-complementary

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#7e8b9a · #8d7e9a

#7e9a8d · #7f7e9a · #9a7e8b

Contrast

#999a7e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #77785e as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #585946 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.28:1passpasspassPasses 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 #999a7e as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #999a7e
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 #999a7e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/999a7e-babea2-4e8fdf-272d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md