Color

#8cb9c5

#8cb9c5
hex#8cb9c5
rgbrgb(140, 185, 197)
hslhsl(193, 33%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.758 0.051 215.9)
Closest name: Crystal Lake (#88b5c4)Relative luminance 0.443

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#c5988c

#8cc5b5 · #8c9cc5

#c58cb9 · #b9c58c

Split-complementary

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#c58c9c · #c5b58c

#b58cc5 · #c5988c · #9cc58c

Contrast

#8cb9c5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.13:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #467c8b as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #355e69 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
9.86:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8cb9c5 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 #8cb9c5
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 #8cb9c5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8cb9c5-a2b5be-df4e75-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md