Color

#8bc5ea

#8bc5ea
hex#8bc5ea
rgbrgb(139, 197, 234)
hslhsl(203, 69%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.797 0.08 237.1)
Closest name: Below Zero (#87cded)Relative luminance 0.5136

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#eaaf8b

#8beadf · #8b96ea

#ea8bc5 · #c5ea8b

Split-complementary

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#ea8b96 · #eadf8b

#df8bea · #eaaf8b · #96ea8b

Contrast

#8bc5ea as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #217cb5 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #195c86 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
11.27:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8bc5ea 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

#8bc5ea reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8bc5ea
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 #8bc5ea and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8bc5ea-9cb0c4-df4e5d-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md