Color

#71838e

#71838e
hex#71838e
rgbrgb(113, 131, 142)
hslhsl(203, 11%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.599 0.027 234.7)
Closest name: Slate Gray (#708090)Relative luminance 0.217

Colors that go with #71838e

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 →

#8e7c71

#718e8a · #71758e

#8e7183 · #838e71

Split-complementary

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#8e7175 · #8e8a71

#8a718e · #8e7c71 · #758e71

Contrast

#71838e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.93:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #687882 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5960 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
5.34:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8b99a2 as the text (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #71838e 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 #71838e
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 #71838e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/71838e-9cb0c4-df4e5d-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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