Color

#8ca4b1

#8ca4b1
hex#8ca4b1
rgbrgb(140, 164, 177)
hslhsl(201, 19%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.705 0.033 231.5)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.353

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b1998c

#8cb1ab · #8c91b1

#b18ca4 · #a4b18c

Split-complementary

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#b18c91 · #b1ab8c

#ab8cb1 · #b1998c · #91b18c

Contrast

#8ca4b1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.61:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5d7989 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #465c67 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
8.06:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8ca4b1 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 #8ca4b1
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 #8ca4b1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8ca4b1-9cb1c4-df4e62-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md