Color

#997e7a

#997e7a
hex#997e7a
rgbrgb(153, 126, 122)
hslhsl(8, 13%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.617 0.034 27.9)
Closest name: Argent (#888888)Relative luminance 0.231

Colors that go with #997e7a

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 #997e7a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7a9599

#997a86 · #998e7a

#7a997f · #7f7a99

Split-complementary

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#7a998e · #7a8699

#86997a · #7a9599 · #8e7a99

Contrast

#997e7a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.74:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8a6f6a as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #685350 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (4.56:1)
Aaon black
5.62:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a8928f as the text (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #997e7a 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

#997e7a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #997e7a
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 #997e7a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/997e7a-c4a69c-62cba6-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md