Color

#97bea5

#97bea5
hex#97bea5
rgbrgb(151, 190, 165)
hslhsl(142, 23%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.766 0.055 156.7)
Closest name: Lichen (#8ebaa6)Relative luminance 0.4612

Colors that go with #97bea5

Charcoal, Plum 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 #97bea5

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#be97b0

#9dbe97 · #97beb9

#a697be · #bea697

Split-complementary

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#b997be · #be979d

#979dbe · #be97b0 · #beb997

Contrast

#97bea5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.05:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #518162 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #3b5e48 as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
10.22:1passpasspassPasses 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 #97bea5 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 #97bea5
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 #97bea5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/97bea5-a2beaf-c659d4-1f2d2a-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md