Color
#978be5
#978be5rgb(151, 139, 229)hsl(248, 63%, 72%)oklch(0.684 0.131 288.6)Colors that go with #978be5
Charcoal, Amber and Deep Sky Blue 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 #978be5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #978be5 in 5 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #978be5: 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Calm's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #978be5: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #978be5 in 4 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Supabase's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Blue Mono and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #978be5, as the text colour against it.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #978be5 in 6 real palettes, including Roblox's brand system and Sephora's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
complementaryDark Goldenrod sits directly opposite #978be5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #978be5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #978be5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.94:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.14:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #978be5 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
#978be5 reads as cool, vivid, light. 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 #978be5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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