Studio Grey
Open in tool →A pure greyscale with a single electric blue — the portfolio palette that makes work look considered.
Color
#8a9099
#8a9099
hex
#8a9099rgb
rgb(138, 144, 153)hsl
hsl(216, 7%, 57%)oklch
oklch(0.651 0.015 258.4)Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2765
Colors that go with #8a9099
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #8a9099 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #8a9099 in 6 real palettes, including Estate and Rain Garden, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #8a9099 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #8a9099 in 4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Darkroom, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #8a9099 in 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Atelier, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #8a9099 in 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #8a9099 in 6 real palettes, including Open House and Plaid's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
shippedPeru is paired with #8a9099 in 4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #8a9099
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a9099 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.22:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.53:1 | 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 #8a9099 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
Ink Wash
Open in tool →Greys on near-black — the monochrome dark mode; keep everything a tint of white and the layout does the talking.
Fonts for this mood
#8a9099 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a9099
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 #8a9099 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8a9099-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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