Color

#999f99

#999f99
hex#999f99
rgbrgb(153, 159, 153)
hslhsl(120, 3%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.696 0.011 145.5)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3387

Colors that go with #999f99

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #999f99

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9f999f

#9c9f99 · #999f9c

#99999f · #9f9999

Split-complementary

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#9c999f · #9f999c

#999c9f · #9f999f · #9f9c99

Contrast

#999f99 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.7:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6f766f as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #545954 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.77:1passpasspassPasses 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 #999f99 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

#999f99 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #999f99
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 #999f99 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/999f99-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md