Glacier
Open in tool →Three blues from ice to deep water on a pale surface — a monochromatic winter set with real depth.
Color
#8ae3f9
#8ae3f9
hex
#8ae3f9rgb
rgb(138, 227, 249)hsl
hsl(192, 90%, 76%)oklch
oklch(0.868 0.091 215.4)Closest name: Blizzard Blue (#a3e3ed)Relative luminance 0.6718
Colors that go with #8ae3f9
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Midnight 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 #8ae3f9: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #8ae3f9's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Blue Mono and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #8ae3f9, as the text colour against it.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8ae3f9: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Still Water put Slate Gray beside #8ae3f9, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8ae3f9 in 18 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the text colour against it.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedDesigners have shipped Wheat with #8ae3f9: 4 real palettes, including Sorbet and Mint Chip, as the supporting colour.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryDark Salmon sits directly opposite #8ae3f9 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #8ae3f9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8ae3f9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.45:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.44:1 | 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 #8ae3f9 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
#8ae3f9 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8ae3f9
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 #8ae3f9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8ae3f9-a2b5be-df4e77-1f242d-e9f1ef?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