Color

#8aa3a2

#8aa3a2
hex#8aa3a2
rgbrgb(138, 163, 162)
hslhsl(178, 12%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.696 0.028 193.6)
Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.3421

Colors that go with #8aa3a2

Charcoal, Blue 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 #8aa3a2

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a38a8b

#8aa396 · #8a97a3

#a28aa3 · #a3a28a

Split-complementary

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#a38a97 · #a3968a

#968aa3 · #a38a8b · #97a38a

Contrast

#8aa3a2 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.68:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #607b7a as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #485b5b as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.16:1)
Aaon black
7.84:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8aa3a2 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 #8aa3a2
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 #8aa3a2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8aa3a2-a2bcbe-d45999-1f282d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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