Open House
Open in tool →Steel blue for trust, warm gold for the sold moment — an approachable brokerage that still feels established.
Color
#8aa5bc
#8aa5bc
hex
#8aa5bcrgb
rgb(138, 165, 188)hsl
hsl(208, 27%, 64%)oklch
oklch(0.709 0.045 244.2)Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.3594
Colors that go with #8aa5bc
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 #8aa5bc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Peru #cd853f
complementaryshippedPeru sits directly opposite #8aa5bc 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 #8aa5bc in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #8aa5bc in 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #8aa5bc in 4 real palettes, including Calm's brand system and Snowflake AI Data Cloud's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #8aa5bc in 4 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Patreon's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #8aa5bc in 9 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Periwinkle #ccccff
shippedPeriwinkle is paired with #8aa5bc in 4 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Lavender Milk, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #8aa5bc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8aa5bc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.56:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.19:1 | 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 #8aa5bc 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
Alpine
Open in tool →Glacier blue with a safety-orange accent: technical outdoor gear, not lifestyle.
First Snow
Open in tool →Ice blue on snow-white with a deep navy — the quietest winter palette; everything is a tint of one cold hue.
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8aa5bc
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 #8aa5bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8aa5bc-9cadc4-df4e51-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md