Color

#c9979d

#c9979d
hex#c9979d
rgbrgb(201, 151, 157)
hslhsl(353, 32%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.725 0.061 10.7)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3699

Colors that go with #c9979d

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 #c9979d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#97c9c3

#c997b6 · #c9aa97

#9dc997 · #979dc9

Split-complementary

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#97c9aa · #97b6c9

#b6c997 · #97c9c3 · #aa97c9

Contrast

#c9979d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.5:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #ac5d67 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #87454d as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.17:1)
Aaon black
8.4:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c9979d 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

#c9979d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9979d
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 #c9979d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c9979d-c49c9c-62cb8c-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md