Color

#979f6f

#979f6f
hex#979f6f
rgbrgb(151, 159, 111)
hslhsl(70, 20%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.684 0.067 115.9)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.3252

Colors that go with #979f6f

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blue 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 #979f6f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#776f9f

#9f8f6f · #7f9f6f

#6f979f · #9f6f97

Split-complementary

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#6f7f9f · #8f6f9f

#6f9f8f · #776f9f · #9f6f7f

Contrast

#979f6f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747a52 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #54593b as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.5:1passpasspassPasses 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 #979f6f as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

mcpConnect your agent — build around #979f6f
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 #979f6f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/979f6f-b6bea2-4e7cdf-252d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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