Color

#af979d

#af979d
hex#af979d
rgbrgb(175, 151, 157)
hslhsl(345, 13%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.7 0.03 1)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3368

Colors that go with #af979d

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 #af979d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97afa9

#af97a9 · #af9d97

#9daf97 · #979daf

Split-complementary

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#97af9d · #97a9af

#a9af97 · #97afa9 · #9d97af

Contrast

#af979d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.71:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8d6d75 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #6b5258 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.74:1passpasspassPasses 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 #af979d 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

#af979d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #af979d
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 #af979d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/af979d-c49ca1-62cb7e-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md