Color

#999bad

#999bad
hex#999bad
rgbrgb(153, 155, 173)
hslhsl(234, 11%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.694 0.026 280.6)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3323

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#adab99

#99a5ad · #a199ad

#ad999b · #9bad99

Split-complementary

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#ada199 · #a5ad99

#ad99a5 · #adab99 · #99ada1

Contrast

#999bad as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #71748e as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #545669 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.65:1passpasspassPasses 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 #999bad 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 #999bad
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 #999bad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/999bad-9d9cc4-df8a4e-241f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md