Color

#8a9b87

#8a9b87
hex#8a9b87
rgbrgb(138, 155, 135)
hslhsl(111, 9%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.67 0.035 141)
Closest name: Basil (#879f84)Relative luminance 0.306

Colors that go with #8a9b87

Charcoal, Blue 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 #8a9b87

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#98879b

#949b87 · #879b8e

#878a9b · #9b878a

Split-complementary

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#8e879b · #9b8794

#87949b · #98879b · #9b8e87

Contrast

#8a9b87 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.95:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #697a66 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #4f5c4d as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.12:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8a9b87 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

#8a9b87 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a9b87
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 #8a9b87 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a9b87-a3bea2-834edf-1f2d23-eef1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md