Color
#8cb9ca
#8cb9cargb(140, 185, 202)hsl(196, 37%, 67%)oklch(0.759 0.054 223.1)Colors that go with #8cb9ca
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Copper lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #8cb9ca: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #8cb9ca on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #8cb9ca: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #8cb9ca in 5 real palettes, including Riot Games's brand system and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #8cb9ca: 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8cb9ca: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #8cb9ca: 4 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #8cb9ca, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #8cb9ca
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8cb9ca as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.12:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.91:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #8cb9ca as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#8cb9ca reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #8cb9ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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