Color

#8396af

#8396af
hex#8396af
rgbrgb(131, 150, 175)
hslhsl(214, 22%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.667 0.043 255.4)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2973

Colors that go with #8396af

Charcoal, Peru and Amber 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 #8396af

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#af9c83

#83acaf · #8683af

#af8396 · #96af83

Split-complementary

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#af8683 · #acaf83

#af83ac · #af9c83 · #83af86

Contrast

#8396af as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #5f7795 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #485970 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.68:1)
Aaon black
6.95:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8699b1 as the text (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8396af 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 #8396af
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 #8396af and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8396af-9ca9c4-df5a4e-1f1f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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