Color

#9d8586

#9d8586
hex#9d8586
rgbrgb(157, 133, 134)
hslhsl(358, 11%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.639 0.029 15.1)
Closest name: Argent (#888888)Relative luminance 0.2566

Colors that go with #9d8586

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 #9d8586

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#859d9d

#9d8592 · #9d9185

#869d85 · #85869d

Split-complementary

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#859d91 · #85929d

#929d85 · #859d9d · #91859d

Contrast

#9d8586 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.42:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8b6f70 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #695455 as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.53:1)
Aaon black
6.13:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a69191 as the text (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9d8586 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

#9d8586 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9d8586
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 #9d8586 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9d8586-c49f9c-62cb95-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md