Color
#8c8ea1
#8c8ea1rgb(140, 142, 161)hsl(234, 10%, 59%)oklch(0.651 0.028 280.8)Colors that go with #8c8ea1
Charcoal, Blush Pink 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #8c8ea1 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #8c8ea1, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #8c8ea1: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Atelier, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8c8ea1: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Open House and Plaid's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #8c8ea1, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #8c8ea1: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Stone, as the lead colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #8c8ea1: 4 real palettes, including Homestead and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8c8ea1 in 25 real palettes, including Dusk and Typewriter, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #8c8ea1
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8c8ea1 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.23:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.5:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8c8ea1 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #8c8ea1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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