Color
#866fae
#866faergb(134, 111, 174)hsl(262, 28%, 56%)oklch(0.589 0.097 300.2)Colors that go with #866fae
Charcoal, Denim and Midnight 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 #866fae: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #866fae: 7 real palettes, including Campus and American Express's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #866fae, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #866fae in 10 real palettes, including Zed's brand system and Graphite Mono, as that palette's text colour.
Olive Green #808000
complementaryOlive Green sits directly opposite #866fae on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #866fae: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #866fae in 3 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Wired's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #866fae: 3 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Ink & Paper, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #866fae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #866fae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.29:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.9:1 | 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 #866fae 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 #866fae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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