Color

#8e7b80

#8e7b80
hex#8e7b80
rgbrgb(142, 123, 128)
hslhsl(344, 8%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.602 0.024 0.1)
Closest name: gray (#808080)Relative luminance 0.2148

Colors that go with #8e7b80

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #8e7b80

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7b8e89

#8e7b8a · #8e7f7b

#808e7b · #7b808e

Split-complementary

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#7b8e7f · #7b8a8e

#8a8e7b · #7b8e89 · #7f7b8e

Contrast

#8e7b80 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.97:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #847176 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #635458 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
5.3:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a49498 as the text (7.27:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8e7b80 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

#8e7b80 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8e7b80
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 #8e7b80 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8e7b80-c49ca2-62cb7c-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md