Color
#856586
#856586rgb(133, 101, 134)hsl(298, 14%, 46%)oklch(0.55 0.063 325.4)Colors that go with #856586
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 #856586: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #856586 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #856586, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #856586: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Atelier, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Lufthansa's brand system and Plaid's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #856586, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #856586 in 4 real palettes, including Slate Workspace and Stripe's brand system, as the accent.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #856586 in 4 real palettes, including Semrush's brand system and Gallery, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #856586: 6 real palettes, including Graphite and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #856586
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #856586 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.2:1 | 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 #856586 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 #856586 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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