Color

#8892aa

#8892aa
hex#8892aa
rgbrgb(136, 146, 170)
hslhsl(222, 17%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.66 0.038 267.5)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2869

Colors that go with #8892aa

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 #8892aa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aaa088

#88a3aa · #8f88aa

#aa8892 · #92aa88

Split-complementary

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#aa8f88 · #a3aa88

#aa88a3 · #aaa088 · #88aa8f

Contrast

#8892aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.12:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #687492 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #4e586e as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.54:1)
Aaon black
6.74:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8e98af as the text (7.26:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8892aa 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 #8892aa
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 #8892aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8892aa-9ca3c4-df6e4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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