Color

#978a5e

#978a5e
hex#978a5e
rgbrgb(151, 138, 94)
hslhsl(46, 23%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.634 0.063 93.6)
Closest name: Banner Gold (#a28557)Relative luminance 0.2556

Colors that go with #978a5e

Charcoal, Cornflower 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 #978a5e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5e6b97

#976d5e · #88975e

#5e9789 · #895e97

Split-complementary

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#5e8897 · #6d5e97

#5e976d · #5e6b97 · #975e88

Contrast

#978a5e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.44:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #817551 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #5e563b as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.11:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a3966c as the text (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #978a5e 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

#978a5e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #978a5e
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 #978a5e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/978a5e-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md