Color

#838fa5

#838fa5
hex#838fa5
rgbrgb(131, 143, 165)
hslhsl(219, 16%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.648 0.036 262.6)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2719

Colors that go with #838fa5

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 #838fa5

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a59983

#83a0a5 · #8883a5

#a5838f · #8fa583

Split-complementary

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#a58883 · #a0a583

#a583a0 · #a59983 · #83a588

Contrast

#838fa5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.26:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #697791 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #4d576a as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.64:1)
Aaon black
6.44:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8c97ab as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #838fa5 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 #838fa5
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 #838fa5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/838fa5-9ca5c4-df664e-211f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md