Color
#785d7e
#785d7ergb(120, 93, 126)hsl(289, 15%, 43%)oklch(0.518 0.06 320.1)Colors that go with #785d7e
Charcoal, Sea Green 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #785d7e: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #785d7e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #785d7e.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #785d7e: 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #785d7e: 4 real palettes, including Campus and HP's brand system, as the lead colour.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #785d7e in 4 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Fintech Trust, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Lufthansa's brand system and Fintech Trust put Midnight Blue beside #785d7e, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #785d7e, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #785d7e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #785d7e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.73:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.67:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #785d7e as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #785d7e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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