Color

#889daa

#889daa
hex#889daa
rgbrgb(136, 157, 170)
hslhsl(203, 17%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.684 0.031 235.1)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3225

Colors that go with #889daa

Charcoal, Peru 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 #889daa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aa9588

#88aaa6 · #888caa

#aa889d · #9daa88

Split-complementary

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#aa888c · #aaa688

#a688aa · #aa9588 · #8caa88

Contrast

#889daa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #617a89 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #485a65 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.45:1passpasspassPasses 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 #889daa 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 #889daa
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 #889daa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/889daa-9cb0c4-df4e5d-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md