Color

#a8b3cc

#a8b3cc
hex#a8b3cc
rgbrgb(168, 179, 204)
hslhsl(222, 26%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.766 0.038 266.6)
Closest name: Ethereal Mist (#b0b8cc)Relative luminance 0.4492

Colors that go with #a8b3cc

Charcoal, Sand and Amber 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

Open in tool →

#ccc1a8

#a8c5cc · #afa8cc

#cca8b3 · #b3cca8

Split-complementary

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#ccafa8 · #c5cca8

#cca8c5 · #ccc1a8 · #a8ccaf

Contrast

#a8b3cc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.1:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6275a3 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #48577a as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.2:1)
Aaon black
9.98:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8b3cc 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

#a8b3cc reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8b3cc
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 #a8b3cc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8b3cc-9ca3c4-df6e4e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md