Color

#8fa178

#8fa178
hex#8fa178
rgbrgb(143, 161, 120)
hslhsl(86, 18%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.684 0.061 127.2)
Closest name: Basil (#879f84)Relative luminance 0.3269

Colors that go with #8fa178

Charcoal, Medium Purple and Blush Pink 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#8978a1

#a19e78 · #7aa178

#788fa1 · #a1788f

Split-complementary

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#787aa1 · #9e78a1

#78a19e · #8978a1 · #a1787a

Contrast

#8fa178 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6b7b56 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #515d41 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.54:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8fa178 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 #8fa178
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 #8fa178 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8fa178-afbea2-4e56df-212d1f-f1f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md