Color
#839980
#839980rgb(131, 153, 128)hsl(113, 11%, 55%)oklch(0.659 0.044 141.8)Colors that go with #839980
Charcoal, Blue 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 body-text near-black for #839980: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #839980, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #839980, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #839980 in 5 real palettes, including Kiln and Coastal, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom put Champagne beside #839980, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #839980: 7 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Atelier, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #839980 in 4 real palettes, including Diner and DuckDuckGo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Orchid #da70d6
complementaryOrchid sits directly opposite #839980 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #839980
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #839980 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.07:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.83:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #839980 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 #839980 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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