Color
#8a748b
#8a748brgb(138, 116, 139)hsl(297, 9%, 50%)oklch(0.587 0.043 324.8)Colors that go with #8a748b
Charcoal, Copper and Sea Green 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 #8a748b: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #8a748b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #8a748b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #8a748b, as that palette's text colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Fintech Trust put Midnight Blue beside #8a748b, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln put Peru beside #8a748b, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8a748b in 4 real palettes, including Slate Workspace and Subaru's brand system, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8a748b: 4 real palettes, including Graphite and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #8a748b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a748b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.24:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.95:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a748b as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#8a748b reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #8a748b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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