Color
#86cbb6
#86cbb6rgb(134, 203, 182)hsl(162, 40%, 66%)oklch(0.79 0.076 173.1)Colors that go with #86cbb6
Charcoal, Lilac and Copper 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 #86cbb6: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #86cbb6 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #86cbb6 in 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #86cbb6 in 4 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Riot Games's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #86cbb6 in 4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #86cbb6 in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Pine & Birch, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #86cbb6: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #86cbb6 in 10 real palettes, including Still Water and Graphite Mono, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #86cbb6
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #86cbb6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.87:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.23:1 | 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 #86cbb6 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 #86cbb6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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