Color
#87909b
#87909brgb(135, 144, 155)hsl(213, 9%, 57%)oklch(0.65 0.019 253.4)Colors that go with #87909b
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #87909b without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #87909b, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #87909b in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #87909b: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Atelier, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #87909b: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Open House and Plaid's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #87909b, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #87909b: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Stone, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #87909b in 5 real palettes, including Slate Workspace and Sephora's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #87909b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #87909b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.23:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.49:1 | 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 #87909b 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
#87909b reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #87909b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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