Color
#968297
#968297rgb(150, 130, 151)hsl(297, 9%, 55%)oklch(0.632 0.039 324.6)Colors that go with #968297
Charcoal, Copper and Olive Drab 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 for #968297: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #968297 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryshippedOlive Drab sits directly opposite #968297 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #968297, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #968297, as that palette's text colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #968297, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #968297: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Stone, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #968297 in 21 real palettes, including Typewriter and Kiln, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #968297
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Contrast
| #968297 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.54:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.94:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #968297 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
#968297 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 #968297 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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