Color

#79817e

#79817e
hex#79817e
rgbrgb(121, 129, 126)
hslhsl(158, 3%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.596 0.01 171.6)
Closest name: gray (#808080)Relative luminance 0.2127

Colors that go with #79817e

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Champagne 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 #79817e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#81797c

#79817a · #798081

#7e7981 · #817e79

Split-complementary

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#817980 · #817a79

#7a7981 · #81797c · #808179

Contrast

#79817e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6f7674 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #545957 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #141414 (4.61:1)
Aaon black
5.25:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #919795 as the text (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #79817e 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

#79817e reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #79817e
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 #79817e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/79817e-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md