Color

#828a9b

#828a9b
hex#828a9b
rgbrgb(130, 138, 155)
hslhsl(221, 11%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.633 0.027 265.5)
Closest name: lightslategray (#778899)Relative luminance 0.2529

Colors that go with #828a9b

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.

Real palettes that use #828a9b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9b9382

#82979b · #87829b

#9b828a · #8a9b82

Split-complementary

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#9b8782 · #979b82

#9b8297 · #9b9382 · #829b87

Contrast

#828a9b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.47:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6d7588 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #525866 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.64:1)
Aaon black
6.06:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9198a6 as the text (7.25:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #828a9b 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 #828a9b
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 #828a9b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/828a9b-9ca4c4-df6b4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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