Color

#8cbab0

#8cbab0
hex#8cbab0
rgbrgb(140, 186, 176)
hslhsl(167, 25%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.753 0.051 180)
Closest name: Lichen (#8ebaa6)Relative luminance 0.4383

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ba8c96

#8cba99 · #8cadba

#b08cba · #bab08c

Split-complementary

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#ba8cad · #ba998c

#998cba · #ba8c96 · #adba8c

Contrast

#8cbab0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.15:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #4d8074 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #396057 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
9.77:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8cbab0 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 #8cbab0
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 #8cbab0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8cbab0-a2bebb-d459af-1f2a2d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md