Color

#97a17d

#97a17d
hex#97a17d
rgbrgb(151, 161, 125)
hslhsl(77, 16%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.691 0.052 120.4)
Closest name: Bonsai Garden (#9e9e7c)Relative luminance 0.3355

Colors that go with #97a17d

Charcoal, Lilac 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 #97a17d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#877da1

#a1997d · #85a17d

#7d97a1 · #a17d97

Split-complementary

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#7d85a1 · #997da1

#7da199 · #877da1 · #a17d85

Contrast

#97a17d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.72:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #707958 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #555c42 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.71:1passpasspassPasses 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 #97a17d 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 #97a17d
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 #97a17d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/97a17d-b3bea2-4e6bdf-232d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md