Color

#8a999e

#8a999e
hex#8a999e
rgbrgb(138, 153, 158)
hslhsl(195, 9%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.673 0.019 219.7)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.3065

Colors that go with #8a999e

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 #8a999e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9e8f8a

#8a9e99 · #8a8f9e

#9e8a99 · #999e8a

Split-complementary

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#9e8a8f · #9e998a

#998a9e · #9e8f8a · #8f9e8a

Contrast

#8a999e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.94:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #68787d as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #4f5b5f as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7:1)
Aaon black
7.13:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8a999e 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

#8a999e reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a999e
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 #8a999e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a999e-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md