Color

#a8a9bd

#a8a9bd
hex#a8a9bd
rgbrgb(168, 169, 189)
hslhsl(237, 14%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.74 0.029 283.4)
Closest name: Foggy Plum (#b7a5ad)Relative luminance 0.4037

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bdbca8

#a8b4bd · #b1a8bd

#bda8a9 · #a9bda8

Split-complementary

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#bdb1a8 · #b4bda8

#bda8b4 · #bdbca8 · #a8bdb1

Contrast

#a8a9bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.31:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #717294 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #565771 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.12:1)
Aaon black
9.07:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8a9bd 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

#a8a9bd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8a9bd
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 #a8a9bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8a9bd-9f9cc4-df924e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md