Color
#8994cd
#8994cdrgb(137, 148, 205)hsl(230, 40%, 67%)oklch(0.68 0.085 275.5)Colors that go with #8994cd
Charcoal, Amber and Deep Sky 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 #8994cd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #8994cd in 6 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Blueprint, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #8994cd in 5 real palettes, including Blueprint and Calm's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #8994cd in 5 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #8994cd in 8 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Periwinkle #ccccff
shippedPeriwinkle is paired with #8994cd in 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Calendly's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
split-complementshippedPeru is a split-complement of #8994cd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #8994cd in 5 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #8994cd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8994cd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.92:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.18:1 | 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 #8994cd 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
#8994cd 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 #8994cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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