Color

#8aa9ad

#8aa9ad
hex#8aa9ad
rgbrgb(138, 169, 173)
hslhsl(187, 18%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.713 0.035 206)
Closest name: Crown of Ash (#a1a9a9)Relative luminance 0.368

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ad8e8a

#8aada0 · #8a97ad

#ad8aa9 · #a9ad8a

Split-complementary

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#ad8a97 · #ada08a

#a08aad · #ad8e8a · #97ad8a

Contrast

#8aa9ad as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #587a7e as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #435d60 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
8.36:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8aa9ad 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 #8aa9ad
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 #8aa9ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8aa9ad-a2b8be-df4e83-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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