Color

#71828e

#71828e
hex#71828e
rgbrgb(113, 130, 142)
hslhsl(205, 11%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.597 0.027 238.7)
Closest name: Slate Gray (#708090)Relative luminance 0.2143

Colors that go with #71828e

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#8e7d71

#718e8b · #71748e

#8e7182 · #828e71

Split-complementary

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#8e7174 · #8e8b71

#8b718e · #8e7d71 · #748e71

Contrast

#71828e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.97:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #687782 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5860 as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.51:1)
Aaon black
5.29:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8b98a2 as the text (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #71828e 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 #71828e
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 #71828e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/71828e-9cafc4-df4e58-1f212d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md