Midnight Luxe
Open in tool →Champagne gold on ink-navy with a violet undertone — hotels and spirits use it because it reads expensive at any size.
Color
#8a82a1
#8a82a1
hex
#8a82a1rgb
rgb(138, 130, 161)hsl
hsl(255, 14%, 57%)oklch
oklch(0.625 0.047 296.8)Closest name: Hatoba Pigeon (#95859c)Relative luminance 0.2394
Colors that go with #8a82a1
Charcoal, Copper 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #8a82a1: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
split-complementshippedCopper is a split-complement of #8a82a1: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #8a82a1, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #8a82a1, as that palette's text colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #8a82a1, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #8a82a1, as the lead colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #8a82a1: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Stone, as the lead colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #8a82a1: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #8a82a1
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a82a1 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.63:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.79:1 | 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 #8a82a1 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 #8a82a1
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #8a82a1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8a82a1-ab9cc4-dfbd4e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md