Color

#99bdaf

#99bdaf
hex#99bdaf
rgbrgb(153, 189, 175)
hslhsl(157, 21%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.768 0.044 169.5)
Closest name: Lichen (#8ebaa6)Relative luminance 0.4626

Colors that go with #99bdaf

Charcoal, Blue and Champagne 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 #99bdaf

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bd99a7

#99bd9d · #99b8bd

#af99bd · #bdaf99

Split-complementary

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#bd99b8 · #bd9d99

#9d99bd · #bd99a7 · #b8bd99

Contrast

#99bdaf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.05:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #537f6e as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #3c5d50 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
10.25:1passpasspassPasses 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 #99bdaf 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 #99bdaf
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 #99bdaf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/99bdaf-a2beb7-d459c4-1f2c2d-e9f1ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md