Color
#8be5dc
#8be5dcrgb(139, 229, 220)hsl(174, 63%, 72%)oklch(0.863 0.088 187.5)Colors that go with #8be5dc
Charcoal, Dark Olive Green and Deep Sky Blue 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 #8be5dc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8be5dc in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #8be5dc: 8 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Astro's brand system, as the lead colour.
Lilac #c8a2c8
triadicshippedLilac completes a triad with #8be5dc — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including First Snow and Blue Mono put Midnight Blue beside #8be5dc, as the text colour against it.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8be5dc: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped7 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #8be5dc, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #8be5dc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8be5dc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.46:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.34:1 | 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 #8be5dc as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#8be5dc reads as vivid, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #8be5dc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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