Color
#796b85
#796b85rgb(121, 107, 133)hsl(272, 11%, 47%)oklch(0.55 0.043 309.2)Colors that go with #796b85
Charcoal, Dark Olive 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 #796b85: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryshippedDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #796b85 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 Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #796b85, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #796b85: 6 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #796b85 in 4 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Marvel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #796b85: 6 real palettes, including Campus and The New York Times's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #796b85 in 6 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #796b85 in 4 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Fintech Trust, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #796b85
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #796b85 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.94:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.25:1 | 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 #796b85 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 #796b85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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