Color
#88ece1
#88ece1rgb(136, 236, 225)hsl(173, 72%, 73%)oklch(0.879 0.096 186.5)Colors that go with #88ece1
Charcoal, Light Coral and Dark Olive Green 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 #88ece1: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Light Coral #f08080
complementaryshippedLight Coral sits directly opposite #88ece1 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #88ece1 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #88ece1: 7 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Lilac #c8a2c8
triadicshippedLilac completes a triad with #88ece1 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #88ece1: 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Stone, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #88ece1, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #88ece1 in 17 real palettes, including Mint Chip and Astro's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #88ece1
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #88ece1 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.39:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.13:1 | 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 #88ece1 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
#88ece1 reads as vivid, light, clean. 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 #88ece1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/88ece1-a2bebe-d459a3-1f292d-e9f1ec?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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