Color

#8fa3a3

#8fa3a3
hex#8fa3a3
rgbrgb(143, 163, 163)
hslhsl(180, 10%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.7 0.022 196.6)
Closest name: Dusky Mood (#979ba8)Relative luminance 0.3468

Colors that go with #8fa3a3

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 #8fa3a3

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a38f8f

#8fa399 · #8f99a3

#a38fa3 · #a3a38f

Split-complementary

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#a38f99 · #a3998f

#998fa3 · #a38f8f · #99a38f

Contrast

#8fa3a3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.65:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #637979 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #495a5a as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.94:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8fa3a3 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 #8fa3a3
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 #8fa3a3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8fa3a3-a2bbbe-d45994-1f272d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md