Color

#8d95aa

#8d95aa
hex#8d95aa
rgbrgb(141, 149, 170)
hslhsl(223, 15%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.67 0.032 269)
Closest name: Cool Gray (#8c92ac)Relative luminance 0.3006

Colors that go with #8d95aa

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 #8d95aa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aaa28d

#8da4aa · #938daa

#aa8d95 · #95aa8d

Split-complementary

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#aa938d · #a4aa8d

#aa8da4 · #aaa28d · #8daa93

Contrast

#8d95aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.99:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6a7590 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #50586d as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.01:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8d95aa 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 #8d95aa
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 #8d95aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d95aa-9ca3c4-df704e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md