Color

#8994a4

#8994a4
hex#8994a4
rgbrgb(137, 148, 164)
hslhsl(216, 13%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.663 0.027 257.7)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2918

Colors that go with #8994a4

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 #8994a4

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a49989

#89a1a4 · #8c89a4

#a48994 · #94a489

Split-complementary

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#a48c89 · #a1a489

#a489a1 · #a49989 · #89a48c

Contrast

#8994a4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.07:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6a778a as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #505968 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.61:1)
Aaon black
6.84:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8c96a6 as the text (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8994a4 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 #8994a4
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 #8994a4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8994a4-9ca7c4-df5f4e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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