Color

#8a909e

#8a909e
hex#8a909e
rgbrgb(138, 144, 158)
hslhsl(222, 9%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.653 0.022 267.2)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2782

Colors that go with #8a909e

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 #8a909e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9e988a

#8a9a9e · #8e8a9e

#9e8a90 · #909e8a

Split-complementary

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#9e8e8a · #9a9e8a

#9e8a9a · #9e988a · #8a9e8e

Contrast

#8a909e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.2:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6f7685 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #545864 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.55:1)
Aaon black
6.56:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9095a2 as the text (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a909e 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

Fonts for this mood

#8a909e reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a909e
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 #8a909e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a909e-9ca3c4-df6e4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md