Color

#8f96a3

#8f96a3
hex#8f96a3
rgbrgb(143, 150, 163)
hslhsl(219, 10%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.672 0.021 263)
Closest name: Dark Ages (#9698a3)Relative luminance 0.303

Colors that go with #8f96a3

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 #8f96a3

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a39c8f

#8fa0a3 · #928fa3

#a38f96 · #96a38f

Split-complementary

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#a3928f · #a0a38f

#a38fa0 · #a39c8f · #8fa392

Contrast

#8f96a3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7787 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #535965 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.06:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8f96a3 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 #8f96a3
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 #8f96a3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8f96a3-9ca5c4-df664e-211f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md