Color

#889faf

#889faf
hex#889faf
rgbrgb(136, 159, 175)
hslhsl(205, 20%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.69 0.035 238.4)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3313

Colors that go with #889faf

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 #889faf

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#af9888

#88afac · #888baf

#af889f · #9faf88

Split-complementary

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#af888b · #afac88

#ac88af · #af9888 · #8baf88

Contrast

#889faf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5e798d as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #455a68 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.63:1passpasspassPasses 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 #889faf 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 #889faf
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 #889faf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/889faf-9cafc4-df4e58-1f212d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md