Color

#8cbae8

#8cbae8
hex#8cbae8
rgbrgb(140, 186, 232)
hslhsl(210, 67%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.773 0.082 248.9)
Closest name: Electric Eel (#88bbee)Relative luminance 0.4652

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#e8ba8c

#8ce8e8 · #8c8ce8

#e88cba · #bae88c

Split-complementary

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#e88c8c · #e8e88c

#e88ce8 · #e8ba8c · #8ce88c

Contrast

#8cbae8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.04:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #2878c8 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #1d5995 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
10.3:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8cbae8 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

#8cbae8 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8cbae8
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 #8cbae8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8cbae8-9cabc4-df514e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md