Named color

Blank Stare

#8b9cac

hex#8b9cac

rgbrgb(139, 156, 172)

hslhsl(209, 17%, 61%)

oklchoklch(0.685 0.031 246.6)

Relative luminance 0.3224

Cool Muted

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Blank Stare on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.

Tints & shades

Tints — toward white

97a6b5 a0aebb abb8c4 b7c2cc c3ccd5 ccd4db d8dee3 e4e8ec edf0f2 f9fafb

Shades — toward black

798da0 6a8095 5d7183 506171 465562 394551 2c363f 20262d 151a1e 080a0c

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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8b9cac ac9b8b

#ac9b8b

Analogous

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8b9cac 8bacac 8b8bac

#8bacac · #8b8bac

Triadic

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8b9cac ac8b9c 9cac8b

#ac8b9c · #9cac8b

Split-complementary

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8b9cac ac8b8b acac8b

#ac8b8b · #acac8b

Tetradic

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8b9cac ac8bac ac9b8b 8bac8b

#ac8bac · #ac9b8b · #8bac8b

Contrast

Blank Stare as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	2.82:1	fail	fail	fail	AA: use #63798c as the text (4.52:1) AAA: use #4a5a68 as the text (7.11:1) AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.68:1) AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.02:1)
Aaon black	7.45:1	pass	pass	pass	Passes 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 Blank Stare as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

b08d57 8a97a5 c9c9c9 101418 eef1f4

Estate

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Bronze on charcoal signals premium listings; the silver accent handles secondary detail without adding color.

Luxury Dark ElegantReal Estate

mcpConnect your agent — build around Blank Stare

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 #8b9cac and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8b9cac-9cacc4-df4e4e-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md