Color

#8a90a3

#8a90a3
hex#8a90a3
rgbrgb(138, 144, 163)
hslhsl(226, 12%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.655 0.029 271.7)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2799

Colors that go with #8a90a3

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 #8a90a3

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a39d8a

#8a9ca3 · #918aa3

#a38a90 · #90a38a

Split-complementary

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#a3918a · #9ca38a

#a38a9c · #a39d8a · #8aa391

Contrast

#8a90a3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.18:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6e758c as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #53586a as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.57:1)
Aaon black
6.6:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9095a7 as the text (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a90a3 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 #8a90a3
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 #8a90a3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a90a3-9ca1c4-df774e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md