Color

#a8a8bd

#a8a8bd
hex#a8a8bd
rgbrgb(168, 168, 189)
hslhsl(240, 14%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.738 0.03 285.6)
Closest name: Foggy Plum (#b7a5ad)Relative luminance 0.4

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bdbda8

#a8b3bd · #b3a8bd

#bda8a8 · #a8bda8

Split-complementary

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#bdb3a8 · #b3bda8

#bda8b3 · #bdbda8 · #a8bdb3

Contrast

#a8a8bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #737396 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #565671 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.06:1)
Aaon black
9:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a8bd as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#a8a8bd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a8bd
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a8a8bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a8bd-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md