Color

#8791a6

#8791a6
hex#8791a6
rgbrgb(135, 145, 166)
hslhsl(221, 15%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.656 0.033 265.2)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2815

Colors that go with #8791a6

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 #8791a6

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a69c87

#87a0a6 · #8d87a6

#a68791 · #91a687

Split-complementary

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#a68d87 · #a0a687

#a687a0 · #a69c87 · #87a68d

Contrast

#8791a6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.17:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6a7690 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #50596d as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.63:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8d96aa as the text (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8791a6 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 #8791a6
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 #8791a6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8791a6-9ca4c4-df6b4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md