Color

#8ba797

#8ba797
hex#8ba797
rgbrgb(139, 167, 151)
hslhsl(146, 14%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.702 0.039 160.2)
Closest name: OMGreen (#8ca891)Relative luminance 0.3536

Colors that go with #8ba797

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 #8ba797

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a78b9b

#8da78b · #8ba7a5

#978ba7 · #a7978b

Split-complementary

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#a58ba7 · #a78b8d

#8b8da7 · #a78b9b · #a7a58b

Contrast

#8ba797 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.6:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5e7d6c as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #465d50 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
8.07:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8ba797 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 #8ba797
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 #8ba797 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8ba797-a2beb1-ce59d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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