Color

#8a95a8

#8a95a8
hex#8a95a8
rgbrgb(138, 149, 168)
hslhsl(218, 15%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.667 0.031 261.4)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2973

Colors that go with #8a95a8

Charcoal, Peru and Blush Pink 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 #8a95a8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a89d8a

#8aa4a8 · #8e8aa8

#a88a95 · #95a88a

Split-complementary

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#a88e8a · #a4a88a

#a88aa4 · #a89d8a · #8aa88e

Contrast

#8a95a8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #68768d as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #4e586a as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.68:1)
Aaon black
6.95:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8d98aa as the text (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a95a8 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 #8a95a8
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 #8a95a8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a95a8-9ca6c4-df644e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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