Color

#c3979f

#c3979f
hex#c3979f
rgbrgb(195, 151, 159)
hslhsl(349, 27%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.72 0.054 6.3)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3624

Colors that go with #c3979f

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 #c3979f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97c3bb

#c397b5 · #c3a597

#9fc397 · #979fc3

Split-complementary

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#97c3a5 · #97b5c3

#b5c397 · #97c3bb · #a597c3

Contrast

#c3979f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.55:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a4606d as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #7e4952 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
8.25:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c3979f 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

#c3979f reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c3979f
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 #c3979f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c3979f-c49c9f-62cb85-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md