Canopy
Open in tool →Deep green and new-leaf mint with a bark-pink accent — a forest that reads calm rather than camo.
Color
#8bd5bc
#8bd5bc
hex
#8bd5bcrgb
rgb(139, 213, 188)hsl
hsl(160, 47%, 69%)oklch
oklch(0.817 0.082 170.9)Closest name: Cabbage (#87d7be)Relative luminance 0.5671
Colors that go with #8bd5bc
Charcoal, Lilac and Crimson 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 #8bd5bc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #8bd5bc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #8bd5bc in 4 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Formula 1's brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #8bd5bc: 6 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8bd5bc in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Neon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including First Snow and Allbirds's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #8bd5bc, as the text colour against it.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped10 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #8bd5bc, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8bd5bc in 27 real palettes, including Mint Chip and Rain Garden, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #8bd5bc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8bd5bc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.7:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.34:1 | 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 #8bd5bc 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8bd5bc
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 #8bd5bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8bd5bc-a2beb8-d459be-1f2c2d-e9f1eb?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