Color

#9f8485

#9f8485
hex#9f8485
rgbrgb(159, 132, 133)
hslhsl(358, 12%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.639 0.033 15.5)
Closest name: Argent (#888888)Relative luminance 0.2557

Colors that go with #9f8485

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 #9f8485

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#849f9e

#9f8492 · #9f9084

#859f84 · #84859f

Split-complementary

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#849f90 · #84929f

#929f84 · #849f9e · #90849f

Contrast

#9f8485 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.44:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c6e6f as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #6a5354 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.11:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a79090 as the text (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9f8485 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

#9f8485 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9f8485
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 #9f8485 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9f8485-c49f9c-62cb95-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md