Color

#889ca0

#889ca0
hex#889ca0
rgbrgb(136, 156, 160)
hslhsl(190, 11%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.678 0.023 211.1)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3155

Colors that go with #889ca0

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 #889ca0

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a08c88

#88a098 · #8890a0

#a0889c · #9ca088

Split-complementary

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#a08890 · #a09888

#9888a0 · #a08c88 · #90a088

Contrast

#889ca0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #64787d as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #4b5a5d as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.31:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #889ca0 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 #889ca0
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 #889ca0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/889ca0-a2b6be-df4e7c-1f252d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md