Color
#857ecd
#857ecdrgb(133, 126, 205)hsl(245, 44%, 65%)oklch(0.632 0.117 286.6)Colors that go with #857ecd
Charcoal, Amber and Blue 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 #857ecd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #857ecd in 7 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Qualcomm's brand system and Readymag's brand system put Blue beside #857ecd, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #857ecd: 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Telegram's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #857ecd: 12 real palettes, including Dusk and American Express's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #857ecd in 5 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Open House, as the lead colour.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #857ecd in 4 real palettes, including Spotify's brand system and Olympics's brand system, as the lead colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #857ecd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #857ecd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #857ecd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.58:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.86:1 | 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 #857ecd 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
#857ecd reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #857ecd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/857ecd-a49cc4-dfa54e-261f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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