Color
#87dae8
#87dae8rgb(135, 218, 232)hsl(189, 68%, 72%)oklch(0.84 0.083 209.3)Colors that go with #87dae8
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Crimson 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 #87dae8: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #87dae8 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #87dae8 in 5 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #87dae8: 7 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Telehealth put Midnight Blue beside #87dae8, as the text colour against it.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped7 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #87dae8, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #87dae8 in 22 real palettes, including Boeing's brand system and Macaron, as the text colour against it.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedDesigners have shipped Wheat with #87dae8: 4 real palettes, including Mint Chip and Oatly's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #87dae8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #87dae8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.59:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.22:1 | 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 #87dae8 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
#87dae8 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #87dae8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/87dae8-a2b7be-df4e7e-1f252d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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