First Snow
Open in tool →Ice blue on snow-white with a deep navy — the quietest winter palette; everything is a tint of one cold hue.
Color
#86abc6
#86abc6
hex
#86abc6rgb
rgb(134, 171, 198)hsl
hsl(205, 36%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.724 0.056 240.2)Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.3827
Colors that go with #86abc6
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Burlywood 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #86abc6: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #86abc6 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #86abc6 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #86abc6 in 4 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #86abc6 in 9 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Periwinkle #ccccff
shippedPeriwinkle is paired with #86abc6 in 4 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #86abc6 in 5 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #86abc6 in 7 real palettes, including Confluent's brand system and 1password's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #86abc6
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #86abc6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.43:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.65:1 | 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 #86abc6 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
Fonts for this mood
#86abc6 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #86abc6
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #86abc6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/86abc6-9cafc4-df4e58-1f212d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md