Color
#859fa3
#859fa3rgb(133, 159, 163)hsl(188, 14%, 58%)oklch(0.684 0.03 207.8)Colors that go with #859fa3
Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 that reads cleanly against #859fa3 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #859fa3 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Kiln, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Darkroom put Champagne beside #859fa3, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #859fa3: 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #859fa3 in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #859fa3: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #859fa3, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #859fa3: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Ink Wash, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #859fa3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #859fa3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.81:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.49:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #859fa3 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #859fa3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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