Color

#8cb4de

#8cb4de
hex#8cb4de
rgbrgb(140, 180, 222)
hslhsl(211, 55%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.756 0.075 250.1)
Closest name: Adrift on the Nile (#93b8e3)Relative luminance 0.4349

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#deb68c

#8cdcde · #8e8cde

#de8cb4 · #b4de8c

Split-complementary

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#de8e8c · #dcde8c

#de8cdc · #deb68c · #8cde8e

Contrast

#8cb4de as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.17:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #3778be as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #295a8e as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.17:1)
Aaon black
9.7:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8cb4de 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

#8cb4de reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8cb4de
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 #8cb4de and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8cb4de-9cabc4-df534e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md