Color

#8a9e91

#8a9e91
hex#8a9e91
rgbrgb(138, 158, 145)
hslhsl(141, 9%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.68 0.029 157)
Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.319

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9e8a97

#8d9e8a · #8a9e9b

#918a9e · #9e918a

Split-complementary

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#9b8a9e · #9e8a8d

#8a8d9e · #9e8a97 · #9e9b8a

Contrast

#8a9e91 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.85:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #667a6d as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5c52 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.38:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8a9e91 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

#8a9e91 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a9e91
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #8a9e91 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a9e91-a2beaf-c459d4-1f2d2a-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md