Color
#877996
#877996rgb(135, 121, 150)hsl(269, 12%, 53%)oklch(0.599 0.046 306.9)Colors that go with #877996
Charcoal, Copper and Sea Green 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 #877996: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #877996 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #877996: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #877996, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #877996: 5 real palettes, including Campus and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Marvel's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #877996, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #877996, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #877996 in 18 real palettes, including Typewriter and Graphite Mono, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #877996
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #877996 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.03:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.21:1 | 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 #877996 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 #877996 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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