Color

#8a8b79

#8a8b79
hex#8a8b79
rgbrgb(138, 139, 121)
hslhsl(63, 7%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.631 0.026 109.7)
Closest name: Antique (#8b846d)Relative luminance 0.2525

Colors that go with #8a8b79

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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 #8a8b79

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7a798b

#8b8379 · #818b79

#798a8b · #8b798a

Split-complementary

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#79818b · #83798b

#798b83 · #7a798b · #8b7981

Contrast

#8a8b79 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.47:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #757566 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #595a4e as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.64:1)
Aaon black
6.05:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #969787 as the text (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a8b79 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

#8a8b79 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a8b79
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 #8a8b79 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a8b79-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md