Color

#838ea0

#838ea0
hex#838ea0
rgbrgb(131, 142, 160)
hslhsl(217, 13%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.644 0.03 260.3)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2671

Colors that go with #838ea0

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Copper 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 #838ea0

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a09583

#839ca0 · #8683a0

#a0838e · #8ea083

Split-complementary

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#a08683 · #9ca083

#a0839c · #a09583 · #83a086

Contrast

#838ea0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.31:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6a778a as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #505968 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.57:1)
Aaon black
6.34:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8c96a6 as the text (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #838ea0 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 #838ea0
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 #838ea0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/838ea0-9ca7c4-df624e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md