Color

#8f8a99

#8f8a99
hex#8f8a99
rgbrgb(143, 138, 153)
hslhsl(260, 7%, 57%)
oklchoklch(0.643 0.023 300.9)
Closest name: Hatoba Pigeon (#95859c)Relative luminance 0.2632

Colors that go with #8f8a99

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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 #8f8a99

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#94998a

#8a8c99 · #968a99

#998f8a · #8a998f

Split-complementary

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#99968a · #8c998a

#998a8c · #94998a · #8a9996

Contrast

#8f8a99 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.35:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #787283 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5562 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.26:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9995a3 as the text (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8f8a99 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

#8f8a99 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8f8a99
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 #8f8a99 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8f8a99-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md