Color

#8ca197

#8ca197
hex#8ca197
rgbrgb(140, 161, 151)
hslhsl(151, 10%, 59%)
oklchoklch(0.69 0.028 165.3)
Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.333

Colors that go with #8ca197

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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 #8ca197

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a18c96

#8ca18c · #8ca1a1

#978ca1 · #a1978c

Split-complementary

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#a18ca1 · #a18c8c

#8c8ca1 · #a18c96 · #a1a18c

Contrast

#8ca197 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.74:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #657b71 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #495a52 as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.66:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8ca197 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 #8ca197
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 #8ca197 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8ca197-a2beb4-d459d0-1f2d2c-e9f1ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md