Color

#718a8e

#718a8e
hex#718a8e
rgbrgb(113, 138, 142)
hslhsl(188, 11%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.615 0.029 208.3)
Closest name: lightslategray (#778899)Relative luminance 0.2364

Colors that go with #718a8e

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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

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#8e7571

#718e83 · #717c8e

#8e718a · #8a8e71

Split-complementary

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#8e717c · #8e8371

#83718e · #8e7571 · #7c8e71

Contrast

#718a8e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.67:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #64797d as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #4b5b5d as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (4.65:1)
Aaon black
5.73:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #859a9d 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 #718a8e 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 #718a8e
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 #718a8e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/718a8e-a2b7be-df4e81-1f252d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md