Color

#a8aeb8

#a8aeb8
hex#a8aeb8
rgbrgb(168, 174, 184)
hslhsl(218, 10%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.749 0.016 260.7)
Closest name: Casper (#aab5b8)Relative luminance 0.4206

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b8b2a8

#a8b6b8 · #aaa8b8

#b8a8ae · #aeb8a8

Split-complementary

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#b8aaa8 · #b6b8a8

#b8a8b6 · #b8b2a8 · #a8b8aa

Contrast

#a8aeb8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.23:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6e7787 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #535965 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.22:1)
Aaon black
9.41:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8aeb8 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 #a8aeb8
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 #a8aeb8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8aeb8-9ca6c4-df644e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md