Color

#979387

#979387
hex#979387
rgbrgb(151, 147, 135)
hslhsl(45, 7%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.663 0.018 91.6)
Closest name: Aloe Tip (#8a9480)Relative luminance 0.292

Colors that go with #979387

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #979387

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#878b97

#978b87 · #939787

#879793 · #938797

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#879397 · #8b8797

#87978b · #878b97 · #978793

Contrast

#979387 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.07:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #787468 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #5a574e as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.61:1)
Aaon black
6.84:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #99958a as the text (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #979387 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

#979387 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #979387
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 #979387 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/979387-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md