Color

#879796

#879796
hex#879796
rgbrgb(135, 151, 150)
hslhsl(176, 7%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.663 0.018 192.2)
Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.2949

Colors that go with #879796

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 #879796

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#978788

#87978e · #879097

#968797 · #979687

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#978790 · #978e87

#8e8797 · #978788 · #909787

Contrast

#879796 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.04:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #687877 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #4e5a59 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.65:1)
Aaon black
6.9:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8a9998 as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #879796 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

#879796 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #879796
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 #879796 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/879796-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md