Color

#8fa8a7

#8fa8a7
hex#8fa8a7
rgbrgb(143, 168, 167)
hslhsl(178, 13%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.712 0.028 193.6)
Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.3663

Colors that go with #8fa8a7

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 #8fa8a7

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a88f8f

#8fa89b · #8f9ca8

#a88fa8 · #a8a88f

Split-complementary

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#a88f9c · #a89b8f

#9b8fa8 · #a88f8f · #9ca88f

Contrast

#8fa8a7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.52:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5f7c7b as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #475c5c as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
8.33:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8fa8a7 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 #8fa8a7
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 #8fa8a7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8fa8a7-a2bcbe-d45999-1f282d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md