Arctic
Open in tool →Navy type on white with an ice-blue accent: crisp and corporate without going grey.
Color
#888fa0
#888fa0
hex
#888fa0rgb
rgb(136, 143, 160)hsl
hsl(222, 11%, 58%)oklch
oklch(0.65 0.027 267.8)Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2742
Colors that go with #888fa0
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Copper 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #888fa0 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #888fa0 in 5 real palettes, including Estate and Rain Garden, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #888fa0 in 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Atelier, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #888fa0 in 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #888fa0 in 6 real palettes, including Open House and Plaid's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #888fa0 in 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Stone, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #888fa0 in 25 real palettes, including Dusk and Typewriter, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #888fa0 in 4 real palettes, including Still Water and Oatmeal, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #888fa0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #888fa0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.24:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.48:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #888fa0 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 #888fa0
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #888fa0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/888fa0-9ca3c4-df6e4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md