Color

#8da4aa

#8da4aa
hex#8da4aa
rgbrgb(141, 164, 170)
hslhsl(192, 15%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.703 0.027 215.2)
Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.3512

Colors that go with #8da4aa

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #8da4aa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aa938d

#8daaa2 · #8d96aa

#aa8da5 · #a5aa8d

Split-complementary

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#aa8d96 · #aaa28d

#a28daa · #aa938d · #96aa8d

Contrast

#8da4aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5f7a81 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #485c61 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
8.02:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8da4aa as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8da4aa
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 #8da4aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8da4aa-a2b5be-df4e77-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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