Color

#c6978b

#c6978b
hex#c6978b
rgbrgb(198, 151, 139)
hslhsl(12, 34%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.717 0.06 34.8)
Closest name: Beauty and the Beach (#c99680)Relative luminance 0.36

Colors that go with #c6978b

Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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 #c6978b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8bbac6

#c68b9d · #c6b48b

#8bc697 · #978bc6

Split-complementary

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#8bc6b4 · #8b9dc6

#9dc68b · #8bbac6 · #b48bc6

Contrast

#c6978b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.56:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #a76352 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #7e4b3e as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7:1)
Aaon black
8.2:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c6978b 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

#c6978b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c6978b
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 #c6978b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c6978b-c4a99c-62cbad-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md