Color

#8caec5

#8caec5
hex#8caec5
rgbrgb(140, 174, 197)
hslhsl(204, 33%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.734 0.05 237.9)
Closest name: Crystal Lake (#88b5c4)Relative luminance 0.3988

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#c5a38c

#8cc5bf · #8c91c5

#c58cae · #aec58c

Split-complementary

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#c58c91 · #c5bf8c

#bf8cc5 · #c5a38c · #91c58c

Contrast

#8caec5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.34:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #4d7a99 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #3a5c73 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.98:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8caec5 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8caec5
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 #8caec5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8caec5-9cafc4-df4e5a-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md