Color

#9b8987

#9b8987
hex#9b8987
rgbrgb(155, 137, 135)
hslhsl(6, 9%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.646 0.022 25.3)
Closest name: Argent (#888888)Relative luminance 0.2661

Colors that go with #9b8987

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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 #9b8987

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#87999b

#9b878f · #9b9387

#879b89 · #89879b

Split-complementary

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#879b93 · #878f9b

#8f9b87 · #87999b · #93879b

Contrast

#9b8987 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.32:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #85726f as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #645554 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.32:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a29290 as the text (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9b8987 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

#9b8987 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9b8987
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 #9b8987 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9b8987-c4a59c-62cba3-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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