Color

#8a8f9e

#8a8f9e
hex#8a8f9e
rgbrgb(138, 143, 158)
hslhsl(225, 9%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.651 0.023 271)
Closest name: Hatoba Pigeon (#95859c)Relative luminance 0.2752

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9e998a

#8a999e · #8f8a9e

#9e8a8f · #8f9e8a

Split-complementary

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#9e8f8a · #999e8a

#9e8a99 · #9e998a · #8a9e8f

Contrast

#8a8f9e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.23:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6f7585 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #545864 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.5:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9397a5 as the text (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a8f9e 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

#8a8f9e reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a8f9e
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #8a8f9e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a8f9e-9ca1c4-df754e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md