Estate
Open in tool →Bronze on charcoal signals premium listings; the silver accent handles secondary detail without adding color.
Color
#8a98adrgb(138, 152, 173)hsl(216, 18%, 61%)oklch(0.676 0.035 258.4)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.
Charcoal is the text near-black for #8a98ad: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Peru sits directly opposite #8a98ad on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
5 real palettes, including Estate and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #8a98ad, as the accent.
Burlywood is paired with #8a98ad in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Copper with #8a98ad: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Denim with #8a98ad: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
7 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #8a98ad, as the text colour against it.
Designers have shipped Powder Blue with #8a98ad: 5 real palettes, including Ink Wash and First Snow, as the lead colour.
| #8a98ad as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.93:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.18:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a98ad as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Bronze on charcoal signals premium listings; the silver accent handles secondary detail without adding color.
Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #8a98ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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