Color

#8a9ca3

#8a9ca3
hex#8a9ca3
rgbrgb(138, 156, 163)
hslhsl(197, 12%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.681 0.023 223.2)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3182

Colors that go with #8a9ca3

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 #8a9ca3

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a3918a

#8aa39e · #8a8fa3

#a38a9c · #9ca38a

Split-complementary

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#a38a8f · #a39e8a

#9e8aa3 · #a3918a · #8fa38a

Contrast

#8a9ca3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.85:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #657981 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #4c5b61 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.36:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8a9ca3 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 #8a9ca3
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 #8a9ca3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a9ca3-9cb4c4-df4e6b-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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