Color

#859da8

#859da8
hex#859da8
rgbrgb(133, 157, 168)
hslhsl(199, 17%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.681 0.031 227.3)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3193

Colors that go with #859da8

Charcoal, Peru 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.

Real palettes that use #859da8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a89085

#85a8a2 · #858ba8

#a8859d · #9da885

Split-complementary

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#a8858b · #a8a285

#a285a8 · #a89085 · #8ba885

Contrast

#859da8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.84:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5f7a86 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #485c65 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.39:1passpasspassPasses 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 #859da8 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

mcpConnect your agent — build around #859da8
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 #859da8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/859da8-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md