Color

#8a998f

#8a998f
hex#8a998f
rgbrgb(138, 153, 143)
hslhsl(140, 7%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.668 0.022 156.6)
Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.3017

Colors that go with #8a998f

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 #8a998f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#998a94

#8c998a · #8a9996

#8f8a99 · #998f8a

Split-complementary

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#968a99 · #998a8c

#8a8c99 · #998a94 · #99968a

Contrast

#8a998f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.99:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #68786e as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #4e5a52 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.03:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8a998f as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Fonts for this mood

#8a998f reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a998f
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 #8a998f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a998f-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md