Color

#88b8cd

#88b8cd
hex#88b8cd
rgbrgb(136, 184, 205)
hslhsl(198, 41%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.756 0.059 226.8)
Closest name: Crystal Lake (#88b5c4)Relative luminance 0.4392

Colors that go with #88b8cd

Charcoal, Dark Salmon 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.

Real palettes that use #88b8cd

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#cd9d88

#88cdc0 · #8896cd

#cd88b9 · #b9cd88

Split-complementary

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#cd8896 · #cdc088

#c088cd · #cd9d88 · #96cd88

Contrast

#88b8cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.15:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #3f7d97 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #2f5c6f as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
9.78:1passpasspassPasses 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 #88b8cd 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

#88b8cd reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #88b8cd
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #88b8cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/88b8cd-9cb3c4-df4e69-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md