Coastal
Open in tool →Sea-teal, sky and sand — bright without shouting; works for travel, wellness, and anything near water.
Color
#87c8de
#87c8de
hex
#87c8dergb
rgb(135, 200, 222)hsl
hsl(195, 57%, 70%)oklch
oklch(0.797 0.073 221.2)Closest name: Dolphin (#86c4da)Relative luminance 0.5173
Colors that go with #87c8de
Charcoal, Dark Salmon 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 #87c8de: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #87c8de on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #87c8de in 6 real palettes, including Telehealth and Lavender Milk, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #87c8de in 9 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #87c8de in 20 real palettes, including Still Water and Macaron, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #87c8de in 5 real palettes, including Still Water and Mint Chip, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sand #c2b280
split-complementshippedSand is a split-complement of #87c8de: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #87c8de in 3 real palettes, including Nursery and Rain Garden, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #87c8de
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #87c8de as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.85:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.35:1 | 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 #87c8de 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
#87c8de reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #87c8de
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 #87c8de and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/87c8de-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-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