Color
#978e9f
#978e9frgb(151, 142, 159)hsl(272, 8%, 59%)oklch(0.66 0.027 309.2)Colors that go with #978e9f
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 that reads cleanly against #978e9f without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #978e9f, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #978e9f: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Atelier, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #978e9f: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #978e9f: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Stone, as the lead colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #978e9f: 4 real palettes, including Homestead and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #978e9f in 29 real palettes, including Dusk and Kiln, as the text colour against it.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedDesigners have shipped Wheat with #978e9f: 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Still Water, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #978e9f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #978e9f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.14:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.69:1 | 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 #978e9f 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
#978e9f reads as muted, minimal. 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 #978e9f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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