Color
#9978bf
#9978bfrgb(153, 120, 191)hsl(268, 36%, 61%)oklch(0.632 0.11 304.8)Colors that go with #9978bf
Charcoal, Midnight Blue and Taupe 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 #9978bf: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #9978bf, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9978bf in 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Zed's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryOlive Drab sits directly opposite #9978bf on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #9978bf in 3 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #9978bf — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9978bf: 3 real palettes, including Dusk and Campus, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #9978bf in 3 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #9978bf
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9978bf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.62:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.79:1 | 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 #9978bf 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
#9978bf reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #9978bf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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