Color

#889ca5

#889ca5
hex#889ca5
rgbrgb(136, 156, 165)
hslhsl(199, 14%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.68 0.026 226.7)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3173

Colors that go with #889ca5

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 #889ca5

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a59188

#88a5a0 · #888da5

#a5889c · #9ca588

Split-complementary

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#a5888d · #a5a088

#a088a5 · #a59188 · #8da588

Contrast

#889ca5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #637983 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #4b5b63 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.35:1passpasspassPasses 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 #889ca5 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 #889ca5
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 #889ca5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/889ca5-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md