Open House
Open in tool →Steel blue for trust, warm gold for the sold moment — an approachable brokerage that still feels established.
Color
#88a5bf
#88a5bf
hex
#88a5bfrgb
rgb(136, 165, 191)hsl
hsl(208, 30%, 64%)oklch
oklch(0.709 0.05 245.6)Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.3591
Colors that go with #88a5bf
Charcoal, Peru and Amber 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #88a5bf: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Peru #cd853f
complementaryshippedPeru sits directly opposite #88a5bf on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #88a5bf in 4 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Blueprint, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #88a5bf, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #88a5bf in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #88a5bf: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #88a5bf in 4 real palettes, including Elastic's brand system and Learning App, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #88a5bf: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #88a5bf
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #88a5bf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.57:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.18:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #88a5bf 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
Alpine
Open in tool →Glacier blue with a safety-orange accent: technical outdoor gear, not lifestyle.
First Snow
Open in tool →Ice blue on snow-white with a deep navy — the quietest winter palette; everything is a tint of one cold hue.
mcpConnect your agent — build around #88a5bf
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #88a5bf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/88a5bf-9cadc4-df4e51-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md