Color

#856ea6

#856ea6
hex#856ea6
rgbrgb(133, 110, 166)
hslhsl(265, 24%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.582 0.088 302.6)
Closest name: Crown Jewels (#946dad)Relative luminance 0.1889

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8ea66e

#6e72a6 · #a16ea6

#a6856e · #6ea685

Split-complementary

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#a6a16e · #72a66e

#a66e72 · #8ea66e · #6ea6a1

Contrast

#856ea6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.39:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #826aa4 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #644f82 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (4.5:1)
Aaon black
4.78:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a08db9 as the text (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #856ea6 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #856ea6
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 #856ea6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/856ea6-b19cc4-dfd54e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md