Color

#8ca2ba

#8ca2ba
hex#8ca2ba
rgbrgb(140, 162, 186)
hslhsl(211, 25%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.703 0.043 250.7)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3496

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#baa48c

#8cb9ba · #8d8cba

#ba8ca2 · #a2ba8c

Split-complementary

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#ba8d8c · #b9ba8c

#ba8cb9 · #baa48c · #8cba8d

Contrast

#8ca2ba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.63:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5c7999 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #455b73 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8ca2ba 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 #8ca2ba
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 #8ca2ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8ca2ba-9cabc4-df534e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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