Color

#8cb3ee

#8cb3ee
hex#8cb3ee
rgbrgb(140, 179, 238)
hslhsl(216, 74%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.761 0.095 258.5)
Closest name: Electric Eel (#88bbee)Relative luminance 0.4399

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#eec78c

#8ce4ee · #958cee

#ee8cb3 · #b3ee8c

Split-complementary

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#ee958c · #e4ee8c

#ee8ce4 · #eec78c · #8cee95

Contrast

#8cb3ee as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.14:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #2a72df as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #1a55ad as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
9.8:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8cb3ee as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#8cb3ee reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8cb3ee
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 #8cb3ee and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8cb3ee-9ca7c4-df5f4e-201f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md