Color

#8dabb9

#8dabb9
hex#8dabb9
rgbrgb(141, 171, 185)
hslhsl(199, 24%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.723 0.039 227.8)
Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.3829

Colors that go with #8dabb9

Charcoal, Dark Salmon 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 #8dabb9

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#b99b8d

#8db9b1 · #8d95b9

#b98dab · #abb98d

Split-complementary

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#b98d95 · #b9b18d

#b18db9 · #b99b8d · #95b98d

Contrast

#8dabb9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.43:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #557a8b as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #405c68 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.66:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8dabb9 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 #8dabb9
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 #8dabb9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8dabb9-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md