Color

#8697a2

#8697a2
hex#8697a2
rgbrgb(134, 151, 162)
hslhsl(204, 13%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.667 0.025 236.2)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.2981

Colors that go with #8697a2

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 #8697a2

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a29186

#86a29f · #8689a2

#a28697 · #97a286

Split-complementary

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#a28689 · #a29f86

#9f86a2 · #a29186 · #89a286

Contrast

#8697a2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #667885 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #4b5962 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.5:1)
Aaon black
6.96:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8999a4 as the text (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8697a2 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 #8697a2
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 #8697a2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8697a2-9cafc4-df4e5a-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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