Color

#8bb9ee

#8bb9ee
hex#8bb9ee
rgbrgb(139, 185, 238)
hslhsl(212, 74%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.773 0.091 252.5)
Closest name: Electric Eel (#88bbee)Relative luminance 0.4636

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#eec08c

#8ceaee · #8f8cee

#ee8cb9 · #b9ee8c

Split-complementary

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#ee8f8c · #eaee8c

#ee8cea · #eec08c · #8cee8f

Contrast

#8bb9ee as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.04:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #2074d5 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #1857a0 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
10.27:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8bb9ee as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#8bb9ee reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8bb9ee
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 #8bb9ee and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8bb9ee-9caac4-df564e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md