Color

#997b7a

#997b7a
hex#997b7a
rgbrgb(153, 123, 122)
hslhsl(2, 13%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.611 0.037 20.5)
Closest name: gray (#808080)Relative luminance 0.2234

Colors that go with #997b7a

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 #997b7a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7a9899

#997a89 · #998b7a

#7a997b · #7b7a99

Split-complementary

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#7a998b · #7a8999

#89997a · #7a9899 · #8b7a99

Contrast

#997b7a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.84:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d6e6d as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #6b5352 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (4.53:1)
Aaon black
5.47:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ab9292 as the text (7.26:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #997b7a 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

#997b7a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #997b7a
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 #997b7a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/997b7a-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md