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Color
#87a9ba
#87a9ba
hex
#87a9bargb
rgb(135, 169, 186)hsl
hsl(200, 27%, 63%)oklch
oklch(0.715 0.045 229.8)Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.3707
Colors that go with #87a9ba
Charcoal, Dark Salmon 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #87a9ba: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #87a9ba on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #87a9ba in 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and NBA's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Uber's brand system put Blue beside #87a9ba, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #87a9ba in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Darkroom put Champagne beside #87a9ba, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #87a9ba: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
analogousshippedCornflower Blue is #87a9ba's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Real palettes that use #87a9ba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #87a9ba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.5:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.41:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #87a9ba 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 #87a9ba
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #87a9ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/87a9ba-9cb2c4-df4e64-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md