Open House
Open in tool →Steel blue for trust, warm gold for the sold moment — an approachable brokerage that still feels established.
Color
#8aa2ad
#8aa2ad
hex
#8aa2adrgb
rgb(138, 162, 173)hsl
hsl(199, 18%, 61%)oklch
oklch(0.697 0.031 227.2)Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3426
Colors that go with #8aa2ad
Charcoal, Peru 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #8aa2ad: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Peru #cd853f
complementaryshippedPeru sits directly opposite #8aa2ad on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #8aa2ad in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Darkroom put Champagne beside #8aa2ad, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #8aa2ad: 8 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8aa2ad in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8aa2ad: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8aa2ad in 4 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #8aa2ad
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8aa2ad as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.67:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.85:1 | 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 #8aa2ad 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 #8aa2ad
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 #8aa2ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8aa2ad-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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