Color

#899dae

#899dae
hex#899dae
rgbrgb(137, 157, 174)
hslhsl(208, 19%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.686 0.034 243.9)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3249

Colors that go with #899dae

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 #899dae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ae9a89

#89aead · #898aae

#ae899d · #9dae89

Split-complementary

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#ae898a · #aead89

#ad89ae · #ae9a89 · #8aae89

Contrast

#899dae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #61798f as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #485a6a as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.5:1passpasspassPasses 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 #899dae 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 #899dae
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 #899dae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/899dae-9cadc4-df4e51-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md