Color

#899bae

#899bae
hex#899bae
rgbrgb(137, 155, 174)
hslhsl(211, 19%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.682 0.035 249.8)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3182

Colors that go with #899bae

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 #899bae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ae9c89

#89aeae · #8989ae

#ae899b · #9bae89

Split-complementary

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#ae8989 · #aeae89

#ae89ae · #ae9c89 · #89ae89

Contrast

#899bae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.85:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #61778f as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #48596a as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.36:1passpasspassPasses 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 #899bae 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 #899bae
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 #899bae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/899bae-9cabc4-df534e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md