Mint Chip
Open in tool →Mint and celadon with a peach accent — fresh without being clinical; the deep green text keeps it grounded.
Color
#8bd5cbrgb(139, 213, 203)hsl(172, 47%, 69%)oklch(0.822 0.075 185.1)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 is the text near-black for #8bd5cb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Lilac sits directly opposite #8bd5cb on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson is paired with #8bd5cb in 4 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Formula 1's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue is paired with #8bd5cb in 6 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Max's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green is paired with #8bd5cb in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Pine & Birch, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue is paired with #8bd5cb in 5 real palettes, including First Snow and Telehealth, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Plum is a split-complement of #8bd5cb: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sage Green is paired with #8bd5cb in 4 real palettes, including Stone and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
| #8bd5cb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.68:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.48:1 | 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 #8bd5cb as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #8bd5cb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/8bd5cb-a2bebe-d459a5-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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