Color

#8995ae

#8995ae
hex#8995ae
rgbrgb(137, 149, 174)
hslhsl(221, 19%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.669 0.04 265)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2987

Colors that go with #8995ae

Charcoal, Peru and Blush Pink 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 #8995ae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aea289

#89a8ae · #9089ae

#ae8995 · #95ae89

Split-complementary

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#ae9089 · #a8ae89

#ae89a8 · #aea289 · #89ae90

Contrast

#8995ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.01:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #657495 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #4c5870 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.97:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8c97b1 as the text (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8995ae 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 #8995ae
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 #8995ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8995ae-9ca4c4-df6b4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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