Color

#8ea3af

#8ea3af
hex#8ea3af
rgbrgb(142, 163, 175)
hslhsl(202, 17%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.703 0.029 232.9)
Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.3504

Colors that go with #8ea3af

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 #8ea3af

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#af9a8e

#8eafaa · #8e92af

#af8ea2 · #a2af8e

Split-complementary

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#af8e92 · #afaa8e

#aa8eaf · #af9a8e · #92af8e

Contrast

#8ea3af as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5f7886 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #485b65 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.01:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8ea3af 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 #8ea3af
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 #8ea3af and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8ea3af-9cb1c4-df4e5f-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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