Color
#978282
#978282rgb(151, 130, 130)hsl(0, 9%, 55%)oklch(0.626 0.026 17.9)Colors that go with #978282
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #978282 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Estate put Blush Pink beside #978282, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #978282, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #978282 in 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Oatmeal, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #978282: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Campus, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #978282 in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped6 real palettes, including Kiln and Estate put Peru beside #978282, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #978282 in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Gallery, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #978282
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #978282 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.6:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.83:1 | 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 #978282 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
#978282 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 #978282 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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