Color

#888a7b

#888a7b
hex#888a7b
rgbrgb(136, 138, 123)
hslhsl(68, 6%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.627 0.022 113.2)
Closest name: Antique (#8b846d)Relative luminance 0.2484

Colors that go with #888a7b

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 #888a7b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7d7b8a

#8a847b · #808a7b

#7b888a · #8a7b88

Split-complementary

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#7b808a · #847b8a

#7b8a84 · #7d7b8a · #8a7b80

Contrast

#888a7b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.52:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #757769 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #58594f as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.58:1)
Aaon black
5.97:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #96988b 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 #888a7b 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

Fonts for this mood

#888a7b reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #888a7b
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 #888a7b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/888a7b-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md