Color

#8a95ad

#8a95ad
hex#8a95ad
rgbrgb(138, 149, 173)
hslhsl(221, 18%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.669 0.038 265.9)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2992

Colors that go with #8a95ad

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 #8a95ad

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ada28a

#8aa7ad · #908aad

#ad8a95 · #95ad8a

Split-complementary

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#ad908a · #a7ad8a

#ad8aa7 · #ada28a · #8aad90

Contrast

#8a95ad as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.01:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #667593 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #4d586f as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.98:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8d98b0 as the text (7.25:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a95ad 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 #8a95ad
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 #8a95ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a95ad-9ca4c4-df6b4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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