Color

#c3979c

#c3979c
hex#c3979c
rgbrgb(195, 151, 156)
hslhsl(353, 27%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.719 0.053 10.9)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3614

Colors that go with #c3979c

Charcoal, Light Sea Green 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 #c3979c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97c3be

#c397b3 · #c3a897

#9dc397 · #979dc3

Split-complementary

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#97c3a8 · #97b3c3

#b3c397 · #97c3be · #a897c3

Contrast

#c3979c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.55:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a6646b as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #7e494f as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
8.23:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c3979c 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

#c3979c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c3979c
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 #c3979c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c3979c-c49c9c-62cb8c-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md