Color

#809da8

#809da8
hex#809da8
rgbrgb(128, 157, 168)
hslhsl(196, 19%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.678 0.036 222.9)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3153

Colors that go with #809da8

Charcoal, Peru and Blush Pink 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 #809da8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a88a80

#80a89f · #8089a8

#a8809d · #9da880

Split-complementary

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#a88089 · #a89f80

#9f80a8 · #a88a80 · #89a880

Contrast

#809da8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5b7a86 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #445c64 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.31:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #809da8 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 #809da8
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 #809da8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/809da8-9cb5c4-df4e6e-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md