Color

#83a6be

#83a6be
hex#83a6be
rgbrgb(131, 166, 190)
hslhsl(204, 31%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.708 0.052 238.4)
Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.3582

Colors that go with #83a6be

Charcoal, Peru and Amber 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.

Real palettes that use #83a6be

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#be9b83

#83beb8 · #8389be

#be83a6 · #a6be83

Split-complementary

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#be8389 · #beb883

#b883be · #be9b83 · #89be83

Contrast

#83a6be as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.57:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #4f7a96 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #3c5c72 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
8.16:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #83a6be as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

mcpConnect your agent — build around #83a6be
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #83a6be and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/83a6be-9cafc4-df4e5a-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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