Color

#8aade5

#8aade5
hex#8aade5
rgbrgb(138, 173, 229)
hslhsl(217, 64%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.743 0.09 259.6)
Closest name: Birdie Num Num (#89acda)Relative luminance 0.4095

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#e5c28a

#8adbe5 · #958ae5

#e58aad · #ade58a

Split-complementary

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#e5958a · #dbe58a

#e58adb · #e5c28a · #8ae595

Contrast

#8aade5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.29:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #3672d3 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #2557a7 as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
9.19:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8aade5 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#8aade5 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8aade5
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #8aade5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8aade5-9ca7c4-df624e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md