Color
#95859d
#95859drgb(149, 133, 157)hsl(280, 11%, 57%)oklch(0.639 0.04 314.5)Colors that go with #95859d
Charcoal, Copper and Olive Drab 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 #95859d: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #95859d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Olive Drab #6b8e23
complementaryshippedOlive Drab sits directly opposite #95859d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #95859d, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #95859d, as that palette's text colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #95859d, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #95859d: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Stone, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #95859d in 21 real palettes, including Typewriter and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #95859d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #95859d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.43:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.12:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #95859d 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 #95859d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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