Color

#8ca5ed

#8ca5ed
hex#8ca5ed
rgbrgb(140, 165, 237)
hslhsl(225, 73%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.731 0.109 269)
Closest name: Cold Lips (#9ba0ef)Relative luminance 0.386

Tints & shades

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Harmonies

Complementary

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#edd58c

#8cd5ed · #a58ced

#ed8ca5 · #a5ed8c

Split-complementary

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#eda58c · #d5ed8c

#ed8cd5 · #edd58c · #8ceda5

Contrast

#8ca5ed as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.41:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #466de2 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #204ccf as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.08:1)
Aaon black
8.72:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8ca5ed 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

#8ca5ed reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8ca5ed
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 #8ca5ed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8ca5ed-9ca1c4-df754e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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