Color

#c97b78

#c97b78
hex#c97b78
rgbrgb(201, 123, 120)
hslhsl(2, 43%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.665 0.098 22.4)
Closest name: Bite My Tongue (#d47d72)Relative luminance 0.2794

Colors that go with #c97b78

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 #c97b78

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#78c7c9

#c9789e · #c9a378

#78c97b · #7b78c9

Split-complementary

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#78c9a3 · #789ec9

#9ec978 · #78c7c9 · #a378c9

Contrast

#c97b78 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.19:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #bb5754 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #923d3a as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.59:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #cc827f as the text (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #c97b78 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

#c97b78 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c97b78
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 #c97b78 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c97b78-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md