Color

#8eaab8

#8eaab8
hex#8eaab8
rgbrgb(142, 170, 184)
hslhsl(200, 23%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.722 0.037 229.5)
Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.3796

Colors that go with #8eaab8

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 #8eaab8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b89c8e

#8eb8b1 · #8e95b8

#b88eaa · #aab88e

Split-complementary

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#b88e95 · #b8b18e

#b18eb8 · #b89c8e · #95b88e

Contrast

#8eaab8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #56798a as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #415b68 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.12:1)
Aaon black
8.59:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8eaab8 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 #8eaab8
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 #8eaab8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8eaab8-9cb2c4-df4e64-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md