Color
#8c9b8d
#8c9b8drgb(140, 155, 141)hsl(124, 7%, 58%)oklch(0.673 0.027 147.1)Colors that go with #8c9b8d
Charcoal, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #8c9b8d without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #8c9b8d, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #8c9b8d, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #8c9b8d in 5 real palettes, including Kiln and Polaroid, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #8c9b8d, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #8c9b8d: 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8c9b8d in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8c9b8d: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #8c9b8d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8c9b8d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.92:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.19:1 | 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 #8c9b8d 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
#8c9b8d reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #8c9b8d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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