Color

#979fb4

#979fb4
hex#979fb4
rgbrgb(151, 159, 180)
hslhsl(223, 16%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.703 0.032 269)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3467

Colors that go with #979fb4

Charcoal, Sand 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 #979fb4

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b4ac97

#97aeb4 · #9e97b4

#b497a0 · #a0b497

Split-complementary

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#b49e97 · #aeb497

#b497ae · #b4ac97 · #97b49e

Contrast

#979fb4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.65:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #697491 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #4f586d as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.93:1passpasspassPasses 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 #979fb4 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 #979fb4
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 #979fb4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/979fb4-9ca3c4-df704e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md