Color
#856996
#856996rgb(133, 105, 150)hsl(277, 18%, 50%)oklch(0.565 0.075 312.3)Colors that go with #856996
Charcoal, Sea Green and Copper 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 #856996: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #856996 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #856996: 4 real palettes, including Atelier and Dusk, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #856996: 4 real palettes, including Campus and The New York Times's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #856996, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #856996 in 4 real palettes, including Slate Workspace and Stripe's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #856996 in 16 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Greige, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped3 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #856996, as that palette's text colour.
Real palettes that use #856996
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #856996 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.71:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.46:1 | 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 #856996 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 #856996 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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