Color

#8bc4e5

#8bc4e5
hex#8bc4e5
rgbrgb(139, 196, 229)
hslhsl(202, 63%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.793 0.075 234.4)
Closest name: Dolphin (#86c4da)Relative luminance 0.5063

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#e5ac8b

#8be5d9 · #8b97e5

#e58bc4 · #c4e58b

Split-complementary

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#e58b97 · #e5d98b

#d98be5 · #e5ac8b · #97e58b

Contrast

#8bc4e5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #287daf as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #1d5c81 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.19:1)
Aaon black
11.13:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8bc4e5 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

#8bc4e5 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8bc4e5
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 #8bc4e5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8bc4e5-9cb1c4-df4e5f-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md