Color

#8cb5ae

#8cb5ae
hex#8cb5ae
rgbrgb(140, 181, 174)
hslhsl(170, 22%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.741 0.045 183.5)
Closest name: Cool (#96b3b3)Relative luminance 0.4168

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b58c93

#8cb59a · #8ca8b5

#ae8cb5 · #b5ae8c

Split-complementary

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#b58ca8 · #b59a8c

#9a8cb5 · #b58c93 · #a8b58c

Contrast

#8cb5ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.25:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #507c75 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #3c5d58 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
9.34:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8cb5ae 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 #8cb5ae
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 #8cb5ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8cb5ae-a2bebd-d459a9-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md