Color

#8397a0

#8397a0
hex#8397a0
rgbrgb(131, 151, 160)
hslhsl(199, 13%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.664 0.026 226.7)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.295

Colors that go with #8397a0

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #8397a0

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a08c83

#83a09a · #8388a0

#a08397 · #97a083

Split-complementary

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#a08388 · #a09a83

#9a83a0 · #a08c83 · #88a083

Contrast

#8397a0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.04:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #647882 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #4b5b62 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.65:1)
Aaon black
6.9:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8699a2 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 #8397a0 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 #8397a0
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 #8397a0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8397a0-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md