Color

#979aaa

#979aaa
hex#979aaa
rgbrgb(151, 154, 170)
hslhsl(231, 10%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.024 277.3)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3259

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aaa797

#97a3aa · #9e97aa

#aa979a · #9aaa97

Split-complementary

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#aa9e97 · #a3aa97

#aa97a3 · #aaa797 · #97aa9e

Contrast

#979aaa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #707489 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #555868 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.52:1passpasspassPasses 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 #979aaa as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #979aaa
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #979aaa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/979aaa-9c9ec4-df834e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md