Color

#8cb9e3

#8cb9e3
hex#8cb9e3
rgbrgb(140, 185, 227)
hslhsl(209, 61%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.769 0.077 247.1)
Closest name: Adrift on the Nile (#93b8e3)Relative luminance 0.4582

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#e3b68c

#8ce3e2 · #8c8de3

#e38cb9 · #b9e38c

Split-complementary

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#e38c8d · #e3e28c

#e28ce3 · #e3b68c · #8de38c

Contrast

#8cb9e3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.07:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #2e78bd as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #235b90 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
10.16:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8cb9e3 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

#8cb9e3 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8cb9e3
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 #8cb9e3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8cb9e3-9cacc4-df4e4e-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md