Color

#8cb6ee

#8cb6ee
hex#8cb6ee
rgbrgb(140, 182, 238)
hslhsl(214, 74%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.767 0.093 255.8)
Closest name: Electric Eel (#88bbee)Relative luminance 0.452

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#eec38c

#8ce7ee · #928cee

#ee8cb6 · #b6ee8c

Split-complementary

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#ee928c · #e7ee8c

#ee8ce7 · #eec38c · #8cee92

Contrast

#8cb6ee as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.09:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #2173de as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #1957a9 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.24:1)
Aaon black
10.04:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8cb6ee as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#8cb6ee reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8cb6ee
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 #8cb6ee and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8cb6ee-9ca9c4-df5a4e-1f1f2d-e9f0f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md