Color
#856e87
#856e87rgb(133, 110, 135)hsl(295, 10%, 48%)oklch(0.569 0.047 323.6)Colors that go with #856e87
Charcoal, Sea Green and Blush Pink 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 #856e87: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #856e87 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #856e87, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #856e87: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #856e87, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #856e87: 5 real palettes, including Atelier and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #856e87 in 5 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Lufthansa's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #856e87, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #856e87
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #856e87 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.59:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.58:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #856e87 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 #856e87 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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