Color

#977e7d

#977e7d
hex#977e7d
rgbrgb(151, 126, 125)
hslhsl(2, 11%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.616 0.031 20.7)
Closest name: Argent (#888888)Relative luminance 0.2298

Colors that go with #977e7d

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Blush Pink 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 #977e7d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7d9697

#977d89 · #978b7d

#7d977e · #7e7d97

Split-complementary

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#7d978b · #7d8997

#89977d · #7d9697 · #8b7d97

Contrast

#977e7d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.75:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8b706f as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #665252 as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (4.54:1)
Aaon black
5.6:1passpassfail
  • 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 #977e7d 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

#977e7d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #977e7d
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 #977e7d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/977e7d-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md