Color

#999e8a

#999e8a
hex#999e8a
rgbrgb(153, 158, 138)
hslhsl(75, 9%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.029 118.6)
Closest name: Edamame (#9ca389)Relative luminance 0.3306

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8f8a9e

#9e998a · #8f9e8a

#8a999e · #9e8a99

Split-complementary

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#8a8f9e · #998a9e

#8a9e99 · #8f8a9e · #9e8a8f

Contrast

#999e8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #737864 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #55594a as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.61:1passpasspassPasses 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 #999e8a 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

#999e8a reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #999e8a
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 #999e8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/999e8a-b4bea2-4e70df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md