Paper & Pine
Open in tool →Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.
Color
#86a29f
#86a29f
hex
#86a29frgb
rgb(134, 162, 159)hsl
hsl(174, 13%, 58%)oklch
oklch(0.69 0.031 188.5)Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.3341
Colors that go with #86a29f
Charcoal, Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #86a29f: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and Canva's brand system put Blue beside #86a29f, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #86a29f in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Kiln, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #86a29f, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #86a29f: 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #86a29f in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #86a29f: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #86a29f — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #86a29f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #86a29f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.73:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.68:1 | 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 #86a29f 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 #86a29f
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #86a29f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/86a29f-a2bebe-d459a1-1f292d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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