Color

#8ca2ab

#8ca2ab
hex#8ca2ab
rgbrgb(140, 162, 171)
hslhsl(197, 16%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.698 0.028 224.4)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3436

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ab958c

#8caba5 · #8c93ab

#ab8ca2 · #a2ab8c

Split-complementary

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#ab8c93 · #aba58c

#a58cab · #ab958c · #93ab8c

Contrast

#8ca2ab as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5e7882 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #475a62 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.87:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8ca2ab 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 #8ca2ab
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #8ca2ab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8ca2ab-9cb4c4-df4e6b-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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