Color

#83808e

#83808e
hex#83808e
rgbrgb(131, 128, 142)
hslhsl(253, 6%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.607 0.021 295.6)
Closest name: gray (#808080)Relative luminance 0.2222

Colors that go with #83808e

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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

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#8b8e80

#80848e · #8a808e

#8e8380 · #808e83

Split-complementary

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#8e8a80 · #848e80

#8e8084 · #8b8e80 · #808e8a

Contrast

#83808e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.86:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #767382 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #595661 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (4.51:1)
Aaon black
5.44:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9896a2 as the text (7.22:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #83808e as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#83808e reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #83808e
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 #83808e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/83808e-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md