Color
#978da5
#978da5rgb(151, 141, 165)hsl(265, 12%, 60%)oklch(0.66 0.037 304.3)Colors that go with #978da5
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Copper 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 #978da5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #978da5 in 5 real palettes, including Estate and Graphite Mono, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #978da5 in 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Atelier, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #978da5 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedSaddle Brown is paired with #978da5 in 4 real palettes, including Homestead and Darkroom, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #978da5 in 24 real palettes, including Dusk and Typewriter, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryOlive Drab sits directly opposite #978da5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #978da5 in 3 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #978da5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #978da5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.15:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.67:1 | 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 #978da5 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #978da5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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