Color

#987d7c

#987d7c
hex#987d7c
rgbrgb(152, 125, 124)
hslhsl(2, 12%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.615 0.034 20.6)
Closest name: Argent (#888888)Relative luminance 0.228

Colors that go with #987d7c

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Blush Pink 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 #987d7c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7c9798

#987c89 · #988b7c

#7c987d · #7d7c98

Split-complementary

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#7c988b · #7c8998

#89987c · #7c9798 · #8b7c98

Contrast

#987d7c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.78:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c6f6e as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #675251 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (4.51:1)
Aaon black
5.56:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a79090 as the text (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #987d7c as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#987d7c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #987d7c
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 #987d7c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/987d7c-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md