Blueprint
Open in tool →Cyan and indigo on navy is the developer-tool look; amber is the only warm note, so it always reads as 'attention'.
Color
#888aec
#888aec
hex
#888aecrgb
rgb(136, 138, 236)hsl
hsl(239, 72%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.674 0.143 281)Closest name: Perrywinkle (#8f8ce7)Relative luminance 0.2947
Colors that go with #888aec
Charcoal, Amber and 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 #888aec: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #888aec in 5 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Qualcomm's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #888aec, as the accent.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #888aec in 4 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Playground, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #888aec: 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Figma's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #888aec: 6 real palettes, including Apple's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #888aec in 4 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Playground, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
split-complementshippedMedium Sea Green is a split-complement of #888aec: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #888aec
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #888aec as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.05:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.89:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #888aec 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
#888aec reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #888aec
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 #888aec and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/888aec-a09cc4-df964e-251f2d-e9edf1?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