Color
#956a79
#956a79rgb(149, 106, 121)hsl(339, 17%, 50%)oklch(0.573 0.059 356.4)Colors that go with #956a79
Charcoal, Sea Green 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #956a79: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #956a79: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #956a79, as that palette's text colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #956a79 in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #956a79, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #956a79 in 5 real palettes, including Slate Workspace and Subaru's brand system, as the accent.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #956a79 in 6 real palettes, including Gallery and Noir Beauty, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #956a79: 5 real palettes, including Graphite and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #956a79
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #956a79 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.55:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.62:1 | 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 #956a79 as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#956a79 reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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.
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›analyze #956a79 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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