Color
#987a99
#987a99rgb(152, 122, 153)hsl(298, 13%, 54%)oklch(0.618 0.058 325.2)Colors that go with #987a99
Charcoal, Copper and Sea Green 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #987a99: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #987a99 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #987a99 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #987a99, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #987a99, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #987a99 in 19 real palettes, including Typewriter and Mushroom, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #987a99, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #987a99: 3 real palettes, including Dusk and Campus, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #987a99
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #987a99 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.76:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.58:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #987a99 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #987a99 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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