Color

#999ebd

#999ebd
hex#999ebd
rgbrgb(153, 158, 189)
hslhsl(232, 21%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.706 0.046 278)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.349

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bdb899

#99b0bd · #a699bd

#bd999e · #9ebd99

Split-complementary

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#bda699 · #b0bd99

#bd99b0 · #bdb899 · #99bda6

Contrast

#999ebd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.63:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6b729e as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #51567b as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7:1)
Aaon black
7.98:1passpasspassPasses 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 #999ebd 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 #999ebd
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 #999ebd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/999ebd-9c9dc4-df864e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md