Color

#808ba8

#808ba8
hex#808ba8
rgbrgb(128, 139, 168)
hslhsl(224, 19%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.638 0.045 268.8)
Closest name: Galactic Gossamer (#7f8cb8)Relative luminance 0.2588

Colors that go with #808ba8

Charcoal, Copper and Dark Goldenrod 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.

Real palettes that use #808ba8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a89d80

#809fa8 · #8980a8

#a8808a · #8aa880

Split-complementary

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#a88980 · #9fa880

#a8809f · #a89d80 · #80a889

Contrast

#808ba8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.4:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #677498 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #4e5873 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.57:1)
Aaon black
6.18:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8c96b1 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 #808ba8 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 #808ba8
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 #808ba8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/808ba8-9ca2c4-df724e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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