Color

#856b79

#856b79
hex#856b79
rgbrgb(133, 107, 121)
hslhsl(328, 11%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.558 0.039 344.8)
Closest name: Flying Carpet (#787489)Relative luminance 0.1688

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6b8577

#846b85 · #856b6c

#79856b · #6b7985

Split-complementary

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#6c856b · #6b8584

#85846b · #6b8577 · #6b6c85

Contrast

#856b79 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.8:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #66525c as the text (7.18:1)
Aaon black
4.38:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #886d7b as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #a6919c as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fafafa (4.6:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #856b79 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

#856b79 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #856b79
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #856b79 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/856b79-c19fad-64cb62-2d1f21-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md