Color

#8c7d85

#8c7d85
hex#8c7d85
rgbrgb(140, 125, 133)
hslhsl(328, 6%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.606 0.022 344.3)
Closest name: gray (#808080)Relative luminance 0.2194

Colors that go with #8c7d85

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #8c7d85

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7d8c84

#8b7d8c · #8c7d7e

#858c7d · #7d858c

Split-complementary

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#7e8c7d · #7d8c8b

#8c8b7d · #7d8c84 · #7d7e8c

Contrast

#8c7d85 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.9:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #7f7178 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #61565c as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
5.39:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9f9399 as the text (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8c7d85 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#8c7d85 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8c7d85
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 #8c7d85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8c7d85-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md