Color
#8c7978
#8c7978rgb(140, 121, 120)hsl(3, 8%, 51%)oklch(0.593 0.024 21.4)Colors that go with #8c7978
Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #8c7978 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #8c7978, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #8c7978: 4 real palettes, including Atelier and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8c7978: 7 real palettes, including Campus and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Lufthansa's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #8c7978, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #8c7978, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #8c7978 in 6 real palettes, including Gallery and Noir Beauty, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8c7978: 5 real palettes, including Graphite and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #8c7978
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8c7978 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.1:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.12:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8c7978 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
#8c7978 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #8c7978 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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