Color

#879fba

#879fba
hex#879fba
rgbrgb(135, 159, 186)
hslhsl(212, 27%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.693 0.048 251.5)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3349

Colors that go with #879fba

Charcoal, Peru and Amber 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 #879fba

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#baa287

#87b8ba · #8987ba

#ba879f · #9fba87

Split-complementary

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#ba8987 · #b8ba87

#ba87b8 · #baa287 · #87ba89

Contrast

#879fba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.73:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #59789b as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #435a75 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.7:1passpasspassPasses 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 #879fba 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 #879fba
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 #879fba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/879fba-9caac4-df564e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md