Glacier
Open in tool →Three blues from ice to deep water on a pale surface — a monochromatic winter set with real depth.
Color
#86dcf4
#86dcf4
hex
#86dcf4rgb
rgb(134, 220, 244)hsl
hsl(193, 83%, 74%)oklch
oklch(0.848 0.09 217.6)Closest name: Cold Blue (#88dddd)Relative luminance 0.6279
Colors that go with #86dcf4
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Midnight Blue 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 #86dcf4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #86dcf4's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #86dcf4 in 5 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Telehealth, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #86dcf4 in 6 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Still Water, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #86dcf4 in 18 real palettes, including Boeing's brand system and Macaron, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #86dcf4 in 4 real palettes, including Mint Chip and Sorbet, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryDark Salmon sits directly opposite #86dcf4 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Light Coral #f08080
split-complementshippedLight Coral is a split-complement of #86dcf4: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #86dcf4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #86dcf4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.55:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.56:1 | 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 #86dcf4 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#86dcf4 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #86dcf4
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 #86dcf4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/86dcf4-a2b5be-df4e75-1f242d-e9f1ef?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