Color

#879fa6

#879fa6
hex#879fa6
rgbrgb(135, 159, 166)
hslhsl(194, 15%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.686 0.029 217.3)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.327

Colors that go with #879fa6

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 #879fa6

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a68e87

#87a69e · #878fa6

#a6879f · #9fa687

Split-complementary

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#a6878f · #a69e87

#9e87a6 · #a68e87 · #8fa687

Contrast

#879fa6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5f7981 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #485b61 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.54:1passpasspassPasses 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 #879fa6 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #879fa6
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 #879fa6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/879fa6-9cb6c4-df4e72-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md