Color

#8fa3ae

#8fa3ae
hex#8fa3ae
rgbrgb(143, 163, 174)
hslhsl(201, 16%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.704 0.028 231.8)
Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.3509

Colors that go with #8fa3ae

Charcoal, Blue 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 #8fa3ae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ae998f

#8faea9 · #8f93ae

#ae8fa3 · #a3ae8f

Split-complementary

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#ae8f93 · #aea98f

#a98fae · #ae998f · #93ae8f

Contrast

#8fa3ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #607885 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #495b65 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.02:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8fa3ae 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 #8fa3ae
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 #8fa3ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8fa3ae-9cb1c4-df4e62-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md