Color

#853259

#853259
hex#853259
rgbrgb(133, 50, 89)
hslhsl(332, 45%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.447 0.122 353.9)
Closest name: Bruise (#7e4071)Relative luminance 0.0799

Colors that go with #853259

Teal, Taupe 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.

Real palettes that use #853259

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#32855f

#853282 · #853532

#598532 · #325985

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#328535 · #328285

#828532 · #32855f · #353285

Contrast

#853259 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.08:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.6:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #bc4e81 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #ce7ea3 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #853259 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#853259 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #853259
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 #853259 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/853259-c49caa-62cb67-2d1f20-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md