Color

#8c9eba

#8c9eba
hex#8c9eba
rgbrgb(140, 158, 186)
hslhsl(217, 25%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.695 0.046 259.2)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3357

Colors that go with #8c9eba

Charcoal, Peru 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 #8c9eba

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#baa98c

#8cb5ba · #928cba

#ba8c9e · #9eba8c

Split-complementary

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#ba928c · #b5ba8c

#ba8cb5 · #baa98c · #8cba92

Contrast

#8c9eba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.72:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5e769c as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #475976 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.71:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8c9eba 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 #8c9eba
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 #8c9eba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8c9eba-9ca7c4-df624e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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