Color

#838fa0

#838fa0
hex#838fa0
rgbrgb(131, 143, 160)
hslhsl(215, 13%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.646 0.029 257.1)
Closest name: Cavolo Nero (#72939e)Relative luminance 0.2701

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a09483

#839da0 · #8583a0

#a0838f · #8fa083

Split-complementary

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#a08583 · #9da083

#a0839d · #a09483 · #83a085

Contrast

#838fa0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.28:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6a788a as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #4e5765 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.61:1)
Aaon black
6.4:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8c97a6 as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #838fa0 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 #838fa0
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #838fa0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/838fa0-9ca8c4-df5d4e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md