Color

#8d94aa

#8d94aa
hex#8d94aa
rgbrgb(141, 148, 170)
hslhsl(226, 15%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.668 0.034 271.5)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.2974

Colors that go with #8d94aa

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 #8d94aa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aaa48d

#8da3aa · #958daa

#aa8d94 · #94aa8d

Split-complementary

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#aa958d · #a3aa8d

#aa8da3 · #aaa48d · #8daa95

Contrast

#8d94aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6c7593 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #50576d as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.69:1)
Aaon black
6.95:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9096ad as the text (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d94aa 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 #8d94aa
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 #8d94aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d94aa-9ca1c4-df774e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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