Color

#8cb0ba

#8cb0ba
hex#8cb0ba
rgbrgb(140, 176, 186)
hslhsl(193, 25%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.734 0.042 216.5)
Closest name: Crystal Lake (#88b5c4)Relative luminance 0.4017

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ba968c

#8cbaad · #8c99ba

#ba8cb0 · #b0ba8c

Split-complementary

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#ba8c99 · #baad8c

#ad8cba · #ba968c · #99ba8c

Contrast

#8cb0ba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.32:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #527d89 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #3d5d66 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.09:1)
Aaon black
9.03:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8cb0ba 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 #8cb0ba
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 #8cb0ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8cb0ba-a2b5be-df4e75-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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