Color
#87ba97
#87ba97rgb(135, 186, 151)hsl(139, 27%, 63%)oklch(0.743 0.074 154.3)Colors that go with #87ba97
Charcoal, Plum and Blue 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 #87ba97: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryshippedPlum sits directly opposite #87ba97 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #87ba97, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Bramble put Champagne beside #87ba97, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #87ba97: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #87ba97 in 4 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and DuckDuckGo's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #87ba97 in 4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
triadicshippedDark Salmon completes a triad with #87ba97 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #87ba97
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #87ba97 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.21:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.5:1 | 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 #87ba97 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #87ba97 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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