Color

#c78aa4

#c78aa4
hex#c78aa4
rgbrgb(199, 138, 164)
hslhsl(334, 35%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.702 0.081 352.2)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.33

Colors that go with #c78aa4

Charcoal, Cadet Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8ac7ac

#c78ac3 · #c78e8a

#a4c78a · #8aa4c7

Split-complementary

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#8ac78e · #8ac3c7

#c3c78a · #8ac7ac · #8e8ac7

Contrast

#c78aa4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #af5a7f as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #86415f as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.6:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c78aa4 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

#c78aa4 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c78aa4
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 #c78aa4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c78aa4-c49ca9-62cb6b-2d1f1f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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