Color

#978e17

#978e17
hex#978e17
rgbrgb(151, 142, 23)
hslhsl(56, 74%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.635 0.128 104.8)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2599

Colors that go with #978e17

Champagne, Charcoal and Dark Olive Green 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 #978e17

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#171f97

#974e17 · #5f9717

#17978e · #8e1797

Split-complementary

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#175f97 · #4e1797

#17974e · #171f97 · #97175f

Contrast

#978e17 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.39:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #7c7513 as the text (4.76:1)
  • AAA: use #5d580e as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.58:1)
Aaon black
6.2:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a49b19 as the text (7.28:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #978e17 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

#978e17 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #978e17
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 #978e17 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/978e17-bdbea2-4e9edf-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md