Color

#8796ab

#8796ab
hex#8796ab
rgbrgb(135, 150, 171)
hslhsl(215, 18%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.668 0.036 256.8)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.299

Colors that go with #8796ab

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 #8796ab

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ab9c87

#87a8ab · #8a87ab

#ab8796 · #96ab87

Split-complementary

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#ab8a87 · #a8ab87

#ab87a8 · #ab9c87 · #87ab8a

Contrast

#8796ab as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.01:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #647790 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #4b596c as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.98:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8a99ad as the text (7.24:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8796ab 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 #8796ab
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 #8796ab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8796ab-9ca8c4-df5d4e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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