Color

#8ea1a9

#8ea1a9
hex#8ea1a9
rgbrgb(142, 161, 169)
hslhsl(198, 14%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.697 0.024 225)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3411

Colors that go with #8ea1a9

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 #8ea1a9

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a9968e

#8ea9a4 · #8e93a9

#a98ea1 · #a1a98e

Split-complementary

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#a98e93 · #a9a48e

#a48ea9 · #a9968e · #93a98e

Contrast

#8ea1a9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #637983 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #485960 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.14:1)
Aaon black
7.82:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8ea1a9 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 #8ea1a9
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 #8ea1a9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8ea1a9-9cb3c4-df4e69-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md