Color

#8fa2a8

#8fa2a8
hex#8fa2a8
rgbrgb(143, 162, 168)
hslhsl(194, 13%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.699 0.023 218.7)
Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3451

Colors that go with #8fa2a8

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #8fa2a8

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a8958f

#8fa8a2 · #8f96a8

#a88fa2 · #a2a88f

Split-complementary

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#a88f96 · #a8a28f

#a28fa8 · #a8958f · #96a88f

Contrast

#8fa2a8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.66:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #62787f as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #495a5f as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.9:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8fa2a8 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8fa2a8
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 #8fa2a8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8fa2a8-9cb6c4-df4e72-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md