Color

#809899

#809899
hex#809899
rgbrgb(128, 152, 153)
hslhsl(182, 11%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.661 0.027 199.6)
Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.2935

Colors that go with #809899

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #809899

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#998080

#80998d · #808b99

#998098 · #989980

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#99808b · #998d80

#8d8099 · #998080 · #8b9980

Contrast

#809899 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.06:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #62797a as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #495a5b as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.63:1)
Aaon black
6.87:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #829a9b as the text (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #809899 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 #809899
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 #809899 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/809899-a2babe-d45990-1f272d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md