Color
#8aeae2
#8aeae2rgb(138, 234, 226)hsl(175, 70%, 73%)oklch(0.876 0.092 188.8)Colors that go with #8aeae2
Charcoal, Dark Salmon 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 #8aeae2: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #8aeae2 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 is paired with #8aeae2 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #8aeae2 in 7 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Astro's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Lilac #c8a2c8
triadicshippedLilac completes a triad with #8aeae2 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #8aeae2 in 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Blue Mono, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #8aeae2 in 6 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Stone, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #8aeae2 in 5 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Dusty Blue, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #8aeae2
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8aeae2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.4:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.95:1 | 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 #8aeae2 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
#8aeae2 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 #8aeae2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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