Color

#8cb1ba

#8cb1ba
hex#8cb1ba
rgbrgb(140, 177, 186)
hslhsl(192, 25%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.736 0.042 214.2)
Closest name: Crystal Lake (#88b5c4)Relative luminance 0.4056

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ba958c

#8cbaac · #8c9aba

#ba8cb1 · #b1ba8c

Split-complementary

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#ba8c9a · #baac8c

#ac8cba · #ba958c · #9aba8c

Contrast

#8cb1ba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #507b86 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #3d5e66 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.71:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.15:1)
Aaon black
9.11:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8cb1ba 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 #8cb1ba
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 #8cb1ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8cb1ba-a2b5be-df4e77-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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