Color
#9c98a9
#9c98a9rgb(156, 152, 169)hsl(254, 9%, 63%)oklch(0.689 0.025 296.5)Colors that go with #9c98a9
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Copper 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #9c98a9 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #9c98a9, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #9c98a9: 8 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9c98a9: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #9c98a9 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Pine & Birch, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #9c98a9, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #9c98a9: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #9c98a9 in 4 real palettes, including Sephora's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #9c98a9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9c98a9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.81:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.48:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #9c98a9 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
#9c98a9 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #9c98a9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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