Color

#8698a2

#8698a2
hex#8698a2
rgbrgb(134, 152, 162)
hslhsl(201, 13%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.669 0.025 232.1)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3013

Colors that go with #8698a2

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 #8698a2

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a29086

#86a29e · #868aa2

#a28698 · #98a286

Split-complementary

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#a2868a · #a29e86

#9e86a2 · #a29086 · #8aa286

Contrast

#8698a2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.99:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #647782 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #4b5a62 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.03:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8698a2 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 #8698a2
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 #8698a2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8698a2-9cb1c4-df4e62-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md