Color

#8d9690

#8d9690
hex#8d9690
rgbrgb(141, 150, 144)
hslhsl(140, 4%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.664 0.014 156.8)
Closest name: Aloe Tip (#8a9480)Relative luminance 0.2949

Colors that go with #8d9690

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 #8d9690

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#968d93

#8e968d · #8d9694

#908d96 · #96908d

Split-complementary

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#948d96 · #968d8e

#8d8e96 · #968d93 · #96948d

Contrast

#8d9690 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.04:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6e7771 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #535a56 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.65:1)
Aaon black
6.9:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #909892 as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d9690 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#8d9690 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d9690
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 #8d9690 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d9690-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md