Color

#999fbd

#999fbd
hex#999fbd
rgbrgb(153, 159, 189)
hslhsl(230, 21%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.708 0.044 276.3)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3524

Colors that go with #999fbd

Charcoal, Sand 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 #999fbd

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bdb799

#99b1bd · #a599bd

#bd999f · #9fbd99

Split-complementary

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#bda599 · #b1bd99

#bd99b1 · #bdb799 · #99bda5

Contrast

#999fbd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.61:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6b739e as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #4f5678 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.05:1passpasspassPasses 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 #999fbd as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

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

tool url/palettes/new/999fbd-9c9ec4-df814e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md