Color

#8a98ad

#8a98ad
hex#8a98ad
rgbrgb(138, 152, 173)
hslhsl(216, 18%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.676 0.035 258.4)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3088

Colors that go with #8a98ad

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 #8a98ad

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ad9f8a

#8aaaad · #8d8aad

#ad8a98 · #98ad8a

Split-complementary

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#ad8d8a · #aaad8a

#ad8aaa · #ad9f8a · #8aad8d

Contrast

#8a98ad as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.93:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #647690 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #4b586c as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.18:1passpasspassPasses 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.

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 #8a98ad
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 #8a98ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a98ad-9ca7c4-df5f4e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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