Color

#8fa6ae

#8fa6ae
hex#8fa6ae
rgbrgb(143, 166, 174)
hslhsl(195, 16%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.71 0.028 220.8)
Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.3617

Colors that go with #8fa6ae

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 #8fa6ae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ae968f

#8faea6 · #8f96ae

#ae8fa6 · #a6ae8f

Split-complementary

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#ae8f96 · #aea68f

#a68fae · #ae968f · #96ae8f

Contrast

#8fa6ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.55:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5e7982 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #475b62 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.23:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8fa6ae 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 #8fa6ae
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 #8fa6ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8fa6ae-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md