Color

#878f9b

#878f9b
hex#878f9b
rgbrgb(135, 143, 155)
hslhsl(216, 9%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.647 0.02 258.4)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2716

Colors that go with #878f9b

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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.

Real palettes that use #878f9b

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9b9387

#87999b · #89879b

#9b878f · #8f9b87

Split-complementary

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#9b8987 · #999b87

#9b8799 · #9b9387 · #879b89

Contrast

#878f9b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.26:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6d7683 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #515861 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.64:1)
Aaon black
6.43:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9097a2 as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #878f9b as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#878f9b reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #878f9b
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

›analyze #878f9b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/878f9b-9ca7c4-df5f4e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md