Color

#8e8aad

#8e8aad
hex#8e8aad
rgbrgb(142, 138, 173)
hslhsl(247, 18%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.649 0.052 290.1)
Closest name: Galactic Gossamer (#7f8cb8)Relative luminance 0.2694

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a9ad8a

#8a97ad · #a08aad

#ad8e8a · #8aad8e

Split-complementary

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#ada08a · #97ad8a

#ad8a97 · #a9ad8a · #8aada0

Contrast

#8e8aad as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.29:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #746f9b as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #585478 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.39:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9793b4 as the text (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8e8aad 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 #8e8aad
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #8e8aad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8e8aad-a59cc4-dfaa4e-271f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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