Color

#8a977d

#8a977d
hex#8a977d
rgbrgb(138, 151, 125)
hslhsl(90, 11%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.659 0.04 129.2)
Closest name: Artichoke (#8f9779)Relative luminance 0.2902

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8a7d97

#97977d · #7d977d

#7d8a97 · #977d8a

Split-complementary

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#7d7d97 · #977d97

#7d9797 · #8a7d97 · #977d7d

Contrast

#8a977d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.09:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6e7a62 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #525b49 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.8:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8f9b82 as the text (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a977d as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a977d
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #8a977d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a977d-adbea2-514edf-202d1f-f1f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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