Color

#79a09b

#79a09b
hex#79a09b
rgbrgb(121, 160, 155)
hslhsl(172, 17%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.676 0.043 186.5)
Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.3157

Colors that go with #79a09b

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #79a09b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a0797e

#79a087 · #7991a0

#9b79a0 · #a09b79

Split-complementary

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#a07991 · #a08779

#8779a0 · #a0797e · #91a079

Contrast

#79a09b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #597d78 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #425c59 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.31:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #79a09b as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #79a09b
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 #79a09b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/79a09b-a2bebe-d459a5-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md