Color

#8890a0

#8890a0
hex#8890a0
rgbrgb(136, 144, 160)
hslhsl(220, 11%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.652 0.026 264.4)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2772

Colors that go with #8890a0

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 #8890a0

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a09888

#889ca0 · #8c88a0

#a08890 · #90a088

Split-complementary

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#a08c88 · #9ca088

#a0889c · #a09888 · #88a08c

Contrast

#8890a0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.21:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6d7688 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #525866 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.53:1)
Aaon black
6.54:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9198a6 as the text (7.25:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8890a0 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 #8890a0
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 #8890a0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8890a0-9ca5c4-df694e-211f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md