Color

#987e7c

#987e7c
hex#987e7c
rgbrgb(152, 126, 124)
hslhsl(4, 12%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.617 0.032 23.2)
Closest name: Argent (#888888)Relative luminance 0.2305

Colors that go with #987e7c

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 #987e7c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7c9698

#987c88 · #988c7c

#7c987e · #7e7c98

Split-complementary

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#7c988c · #7c8898

#88987c · #7c9698 · #8c7c98

Contrast

#987e7c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.74:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c706e as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #675251 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (4.55:1)
Aaon black
5.61:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a79190 as the text (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #987e7c 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

#987e7c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #987e7c
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 #987e7c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/987e7c-c4a39c-62cb9f-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md