Color

#859997

#859997
hex#859997
rgbrgb(133, 153, 151)
hslhsl(174, 9%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.667 0.023 189.3)
Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.3

Colors that go with #859997

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 #859997

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#998587

#85998d · #859199

#978599 · #999785

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#998591 · #998d85

#8d8599 · #998587 · #919985

Contrast

#859997 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #667a78 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5c5a as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7:1)
Aaon black
7:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #859997 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

#859997 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #859997
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 #859997 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/859997-a2bebe-d459a1-1f292d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md