Color

#8fa6bd

#8fa6bd
hex#8fa6bd
rgbrgb(143, 166, 189)
hslhsl(210, 26%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.715 0.042 248.4)
Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.3679

Colors that go with #8fa6bd

Charcoal, Peru 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 #8fa6bd

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bda68f

#8fbdbd · #8f8fbd

#bd8fa6 · #a6bd8f

Split-complementary

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#bd8f8f · #bdbd8f

#bd8fbd · #bda68f · #8fbd8f

Contrast

#8fa6bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.51:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #597897 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #425970 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
8.36:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8fa6bd 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 #8fa6bd
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 #8fa6bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8fa6bd-9cabc4-df514e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md