Color

#8a9799

#8a9799
hex#8a9799
rgbrgb(138, 151, 153)
hslhsl(188, 7%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.667 0.015 207.9)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.2984

Colors that go with #8a9799

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 #8a9799

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#998c8a

#8a9993 · #8a8f99

#998a97 · #97998a

Split-complementary

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#998a8f · #99938a

#938a99 · #998c8a · #8f998a

Contrast

#8a9799 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.01:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6b797b as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #4e585a as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.97:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8c999b as the text (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a9799 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

#8a9799 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a9799
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 #8a9799 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a9799-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md