Estate
Open in tool →Bronze on charcoal signals premium listings; the silver accent handles secondary detail without adding color.
Color
#8a99ad
#8a99ad
hex
#8a99adrgb
rgb(138, 153, 173)hsl
hsl(214, 18%, 61%)oklch
oklch(0.678 0.034 255.6)Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.312
Colors that go with #8a99ad
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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #8a99ad: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Peru #cd853f
complementaryshippedPeru sits directly opposite #8a99ad on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #8a99ad, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #8a99ad in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #8a99ad: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8a99ad: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #8a99ad, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #8a99ad: 5 real palettes, including First Snow and Ink Wash, as the accent.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a99ad as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.9:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.24:1 | 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 #8a99ad 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 #8a99ad
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #8a99ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8a99ad-9ca9c4-df5a4e-1f1f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md