Color
#796e87
#796e87rgb(121, 110, 135)hsl(266, 10%, 48%)oklch(0.557 0.04 305.1)Colors that go with #796e87
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Blush Pink 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 #796e87: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryshippedDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #796e87 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #796e87, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #796e87, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #796e87: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Atelier, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #796e87 in 4 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Marvel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #796e87: 6 real palettes, including Campus and The New York Times's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #796e87 in 6 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #796e87
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #796e87 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.78:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.39:1 | 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 #796e87 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 #796e87 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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