Color
#88ccd8
#88ccd8rgb(136, 204, 216)hsl(189, 51%, 69%)oklch(0.804 0.07 209.8)Colors that go with #88ccd8
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 #88ccd8: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #88ccd8 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 #88ccd8 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 #88ccd8: 7 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #88ccd8: 5 real palettes, including UEFA's brand system and Nikon's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #88ccd8: 4 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Telehealth and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #88ccd8, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #88ccd8 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #88ccd8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #88ccd8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.8:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.68:1 | 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 #88ccd8 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
#88ccd8 reads as cool, modern. 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 #88ccd8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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