Color

#979b87

#979b87
hex#979b87
rgbrgb(151, 155, 135)
hslhsl(72, 9%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.681 0.029 116.4)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3177

Colors that go with #979b87

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 #979b87

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8b879b

#9b9587 · #8d9b87

#87979b · #9b8797

Split-complementary

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#878d9b · #95879b

#879b95 · #8b879b · #9b878d

Contrast

#979b87 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747864 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #56594a as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.35:1passpasspassPasses 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 #979b87 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

#979b87 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #979b87
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 #979b87 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/979b87-b5bea2-4e77df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md