Color

#a8b2bd

#a8b2bd
hex#a8b2bd
rgbrgb(168, 178, 189)
hslhsl(211, 14%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.759 0.019 250.6)
Closest name: Casper (#aab5b8)Relative luminance 0.4384

Colors that go with #a8b2bd

Charcoal, Copper and Crimson 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bdb3a8

#a8bdbd · #a8a8bd

#bda8b2 · #b2bda8

Split-complementary

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#bda8a8 · #bdbda8

#bda8bd · #bdb3a8 · #a8bda8

Contrast

#a8b2bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.15:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #677789 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5966 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
9.77:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8b2bd 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

#a8b2bd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8b2bd
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 #a8b2bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8b2bd-9cabc4-df534e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md