Color

#808a99

#808a99
hex#808a99
rgbrgb(128, 138, 153)
hslhsl(216, 11%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.63 0.025 258.4)
Closest name: lightslategray (#778899)Relative luminance 0.2507

Colors that go with #808a99

Charcoal, Burlywood 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 →

#998f80

#809699 · #828099

#99808a · #8a9980

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#998280 · #969980

#998096 · #998f80 · #809982

Contrast

#808a99 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.49:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6b7585 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #4f5763 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.61:1)
Aaon black
6.01:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8e97a4 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 #808a99 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

mcpConnect your agent — build around #808a99
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 #808a99 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/808a99-9ca7c4-df5f4e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md