Color
#978bea
#978beargb(151, 139, 234)hsl(248, 69%, 73%)oklch(0.687 0.137 288)Colors that go with #978bea
Midnight Blue, Dark Goldenrod and Peru 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.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #978bea in 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
complementaryDark Goldenrod sits directly opposite #978bea on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Peru #cd853f
split-complementshippedPeru is a split-complement of #978bea: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
split-complementshippedMedium Sea Green is a split-complement of #978bea: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #978bea: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Terracotta #e2725b
triadicshippedTerracotta completes a triad with #978bea — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #978bea in two real palettes: Blueprint and Calm's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #978bea in two real palettes: Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #978bea
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #978bea as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.92:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.2:1 | 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 #978bea 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
#978bea 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 #978bea and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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