Color

#838ea5

#838ea5
hex#838ea5
rgbrgb(131, 142, 165)
hslhsl(221, 16%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.646 0.037 265.1)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2689

Colors that go with #838ea5

Charcoal, Copper 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 #838ea5

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a59a83

#839fa5 · #8983a5

#a5838e · #8ea583

Split-complementary

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#a58983 · #9fa583

#a5839f · #a59a83 · #83a589

Contrast

#838ea5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.29:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #697691 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #4f596d as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.38:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8c96ab as the text (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #838ea5 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 #838ea5
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 #838ea5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/838ea5-9ca4c4-df6b4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md