Color

#979baa

#979baa
hex#979baa
rgbrgb(151, 155, 170)
hslhsl(227, 10%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.691 0.022 273.9)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3292

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aaa697

#97a5aa · #9d97aa

#aa979b · #9baa97

Split-complementary

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#aa9d97 · #a5aa97

#aa97a5 · #aaa697 · #97aa9d

Contrast

#979baa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #707689 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #535765 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.58:1passpasspassPasses 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 #979baa 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 #979baa
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 #979baa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/979baa-9ca0c4-df7a4e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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