Color

#8397af

#8397af
hex#8397af
rgbrgb(131, 151, 175)
hslhsl(213, 22%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.669 0.042 253.1)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.3005

Colors that go with #8397af

Charcoal, Peru 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 #8397af

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#af9b83

#83adaf · #8583af

#af8397 · #97af83

Split-complementary

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#af8583 · #adaf83

#af83ad · #af9b83 · #83af85

Contrast

#8397af as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5f7895 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #485a70 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.01:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8397af 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 #8397af
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 #8397af and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8397af-9ca9c4-df584e-1f202d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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