Color

#8cb4e8

#8cb4e8
hex#8cb4e8
rgbrgb(140, 180, 232)
hslhsl(214, 67%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.76 0.087 255.2)
Closest name: Adrift on the Nile (#93b8e3)Relative luminance 0.4404

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#e8c08c

#8ce2e8 · #928ce8

#e88cb4 · #b4e88c

Split-complementary

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#e8928c · #e2e88c

#e88ce2 · #e8c08c · #8ce892

Contrast

#8cb4e8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.14:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #2a74d5 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #2058a2 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
9.81:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8cb4e8 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#8cb4e8 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8cb4e8
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 #8cb4e8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8cb4e8-9ca9c4-df5a4e-1f1f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md