Color

#859991

#859991
hex#859991
rgbrgb(133, 153, 145)
hslhsl(156, 9%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.665 0.026 169.5)
Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.2981

Colors that go with #859991

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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.

Real palettes that use #859991

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#99858d

#859987 · #859799

#918599 · #999185

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#998597 · #998785

#878599 · #99858d · #979985

Contrast

#859991 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #667a72 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5c56 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.5:1)
Aaon black
6.96:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #879b93 as the text (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #859991 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

#859991 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #859991
live endpoint

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.

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

›analyze #859991 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/859991-a2beb6-d459c6-1f2d2d-e9f1ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md