Color
#825b86
#825b86rgb(130, 91, 134)hsl(294, 19%, 44%)oklch(0.528 0.08 323.4)Colors that go with #825b86
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 #825b86: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #825b86 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #825b86, as that palette's text colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Lufthansa's brand system and Fintech Trust put Midnight Blue beside #825b86, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #825b86 in 5 real palettes, including Slate Workspace and Stripe's brand system, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #825b86: 4 real palettes, including Graphite and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #825b86 in 13 real palettes, including Dusk and GitHub's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #825b86: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #825b86
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #825b86 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.54:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.79:1 | 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 #825b86 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 #825b86 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/825b86-c19fc0-9fcb62-2d1f29-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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