Midnight Luxe
Open in tool →Champagne gold on ink-navy with a violet undertone — hotels and spirits use it because it reads expensive at any size.
Color
#8686ac
#8686ac
hex
#8686acrgb
rgb(134, 134, 172)hsl
hsl(240, 19%, 60%)oklch
oklch(0.634 0.057 284.7)Closest name: Galactic Gossamer (#7f8cb8)Relative luminance 0.251
Colors that go with #8686ac
Charcoal, Copper and Dark Goldenrod 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #8686ac: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
split-complementshippedCopper is a split-complement of #8686ac: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
complementaryshippedDark Goldenrod sits directly opposite #8686ac on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8686ac: 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #8686ac, as the supporting colour.
Orange #ffa500
shipped4 real palettes, including Campus and Graphite put Orange beside #8686ac, as the accent.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #8686ac: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and First Snow, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8686ac in 20 real palettes, including Dusk and Typewriter, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #8686ac
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8686ac as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.49:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.02:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8686ac 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 #8686ac
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #8686ac and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8686ac-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md