Color

#87939b

#87939b
hex#87939b
rgbrgb(135, 147, 155)
hslhsl(204, 9%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.656 0.018 236.8)
Closest name: Cavolo Nero (#72939e)Relative luminance 0.2838

Colors that go with #87939b

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 #87939b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9b8f87

#879b99 · #87899b

#9b8793 · #939b87

Split-complementary

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#9b8789 · #9b9987

#99879b · #9b8f87 · #899b87

Contrast

#87939b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.15:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6b7780 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #4f585f as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.5:1)
Aaon black
6.68:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8d98a0 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 #87939b 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

Fonts for this mood

#87939b reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #87939b
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 #87939b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/87939b-9cafc4-df4e5a-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md