Color

#999cbd

#999cbd
hex#999cbd
rgbrgb(153, 156, 189)
hslhsl(235, 21%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.702 0.048 281)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3422

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bdba99

#99aebd · #a899bd

#bd999c · #9cbd99

Split-complementary

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#bda899 · #aebd99

#bd99ae · #bdba99 · #99bda8

Contrast

#999cbd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.68:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e72a0 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #51547b as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.16:1)
Aaon black
7.84:1passpasspassPasses 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 #999cbd 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 #999cbd
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 #999cbd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/999cbd-9e9cc4-df8d4e-241f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md