Color

#8a9fa8

#8a9fa8
hex#8a9fa8
rgbrgb(138, 159, 168)
hslhsl(198, 15%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.027 225.5)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3303

Colors that go with #8a9fa8

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #8a9fa8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a8938a

#8aa8a2 · #8a90a8

#a88a9f · #9fa88a

Split-complementary

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#a88a90 · #a8a28a

#a28aa8 · #a8938a · #90a88a

Contrast

#8a9fa8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #627a84 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #485961 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.61:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8a9fa8 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a9fa8
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 #8a9fa8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a9fa8-9cb3c4-df4e69-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md