Color

#87aaab

#87aaab
hex#87aaab
rgbrgb(135, 170, 171)
hslhsl(182, 18%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.712 0.038 198.5)
Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.3684

Colors that go with #87aaab

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #87aaab

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ab8887

#87ab9a · #8798ab

#ab87aa · #aaab87

Split-complementary

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#ab8798 · #ab9a87

#9a87ab · #ab8887 · #98ab87

Contrast

#87aaab as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #587d7e as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #415c5d as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
8.37:1passpasspassPasses 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 #87aaab 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 #87aaab
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 #87aaab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/87aaab-a2babe-d45990-1f272d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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