Color

#c97879

#c97879
hex#c97879
rgbrgb(201, 120, 121)
hslhsl(359, 43%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.66 0.102 19.4)
Closest name: Bite My Tongue (#d47d72)Relative luminance 0.2723

Colors that go with #c97879

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Amber 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 #c97879

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#78c9c8

#c978a2 · #c99f78

#79c978 · #7879c9

Split-complementary

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#78c99f · #78a2c9

#a2c978 · #78c9c8 · #9f78c9

Contrast

#c97879 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.26:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #bc5759 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #923a3c as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.65:1)
Aaon black
6.45:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ce8384 as the text (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c97879 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

#c97879 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c97879
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 #c97879 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c97879-c4a09c-62cb96-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md