Color

#8f99ae

#8f99ae
hex#8f99ae
rgbrgb(143, 153, 174)
hslhsl(221, 16%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.682 0.033 265.2)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3168

Colors that go with #8f99ae

Charcoal, Peru 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 #8f99ae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aea48f

#8fa8ae · #948fae

#ae8f98 · #98ae8f

Split-complementary

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#ae948f · #a8ae8f

#ae8fa8 · #aea48f · #8fae94

Contrast

#8f99ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #697691 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #4f596d as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.34:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8f99ae 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 #8f99ae
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 #8f99ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8f99ae-9ca4c4-df6b4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md