Color

#879ca6

#879ca6
hex#879ca6
rgbrgb(135, 156, 166)
hslhsl(199, 15%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.68 0.028 228.1)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3168

Colors that go with #879ca6

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 #879ca6

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a69187

#87a6a0 · #878da6

#a6879c · #9ca687

Split-complementary

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#a6878d · #a6a087

#a087a6 · #a69187 · #8da687

Contrast

#879ca6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #627984 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #4a5b64 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.34:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #879ca6 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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #879ca6
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 #879ca6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/879ca6-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md