Color

#a8b4bd

#a8b4bd
hex#a8b4bd
rgbrgb(168, 180, 189)
hslhsl(206, 14%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.763 0.019 240.1)
Closest name: Casper (#aab5b8)Relative luminance 0.4464

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bdb1a8

#a8bdbc · #a8a9bd

#bda8b4 · #b4bda8

Split-complementary

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#bda8a9 · #bdbca8

#bca8bd · #bdb1a8 · #a9bda8

Contrast

#a8b4bd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.12:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #657786 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #4b5863 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
9.93:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8b4bd 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

#a8b4bd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8b4bd
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 #a8b4bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8b4bd-9caec4-df4e56-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md