Color

#8cb9ba

#8cb9ba
hex#8cb9ba
rgbrgb(140, 185, 186)
hslhsl(181, 25%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.754 0.048 197.9)
Closest name: Cool (#96b3b3)Relative luminance 0.4382

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ba8d8c

#8cbaa4 · #8ca2ba

#ba8cb9 · #b9ba8c

Split-complementary

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#ba8ca2 · #baa48c

#a48cba · #ba8d8c · #a2ba8c

Contrast

#8cb9ba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.15:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #4d7f80 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #395f60 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
9.76:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8cb9ba 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 #8cb9ba
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 #8cb9ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8cb9ba-a2babe-d45992-1f272d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md