Color

#79a49e

#79a49e
hex#79a49e
rgbrgb(121, 164, 158)
hslhsl(172, 19%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.686 0.047 185.5)
Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.3308

Colors that go with #79a49e

Charcoal, Burlywood 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 #79a49e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a4797f

#79a489 · #7994a4

#9e79a4 · #a49e79

Split-complementary

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#a47994 · #a48979

#8979a4 · #a4797f · #94a479

Contrast

#79a49e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #557c77 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #405e5a as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.62:1passpasspassPasses 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 #79a49e 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 #79a49e
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 #79a49e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/79a49e-a2bebe-d459a5-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md