Color

#976d6f

#976d6f
hex#976d6f
rgbrgb(151, 109, 111)
hslhsl(357, 17%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.578 0.054 15.7)
Closest name: Amaretto (#ab6f60)Relative luminance 0.1866

Colors that go with #976d6f

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6d9795

#976d84 · #97806d

#6f976d · #6d6f97

Split-complementary

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#6d9780 · #6d8497

#84976d · #6d9795 · #806d97

Contrast

#976d6f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.44:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #956a6c as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #715052 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #080808 (4.51:1)
Aaon black
4.73:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #af8e8f as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #976d6f 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

#976d6f reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #976d6f
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 #976d6f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/976d6f-c49f9c-62cb93-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md