First Snow
Open in tool →Ice blue on snow-white with a deep navy — the quietest winter palette; everything is a tint of one cold hue.
Color
#8aaecc
#8aaecc
hex
#8aaeccrgb
rgb(138, 174, 204)hsl
hsl(207, 39%, 67%)oklch
oklch(0.735 0.059 243.8)Closest name: Birdie Num Num (#89acda)Relative luminance 0.4004
Colors that go with #8aaecc
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Amber 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 #8aaecc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #8aaecc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #8aaecc in 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and NBA's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #8aaecc in 4 real palettes, including PayPal's brand system and Learning App, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #8aaecc: 4 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #8aaecc, as the text colour against it.
Periwinkle #ccccff
shippedPeriwinkle shows up next to #8aaecc in 4 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Calendly's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #8aaecc: 6 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #8aaecc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8aaecc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.33:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.01:1 | 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 #8aaecc as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#8aaecc reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8aaecc
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #8aaecc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8aaecc-9cadc4-df4e53-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md