Color

#8499ae

#8499ae
hex#8499ae
rgbrgb(132, 153, 174)
hslhsl(210, 21%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.674 0.039 248.4)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3074

Colors that go with #8499ae

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 #8499ae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ae9984

#84aeae · #8484ae

#ae8499 · #99ae84

Split-complementary

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#ae8484 · #aeae84

#ae84ae · #ae9984 · #84ae84

Contrast

#8499ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.94:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5f7891 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #47596c as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.15:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8499ae 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 #8499ae
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 #8499ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8499ae-9cabc4-df514e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md