Canopy
Open in tool →Deep green and new-leaf mint with a bark-pink accent — a forest that reads calm rather than camo.
Color
#8cd9ab
#8cd9ab
hex
#8cd9abrgb
rgb(140, 217, 171)hsl
hsl(144, 50%, 70%)oklch
oklch(0.823 0.101 157.1)Closest name: Jovial Jade (#88ddaa)Relative luminance 0.5814
Colors that go with #8cd9ab
Charcoal, Plum and Crimson 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 #8cd9ab: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryshippedPlum sits directly opposite #8cd9ab on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #8cd9ab in 4 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Formula 1's brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #8cd9ab: 4 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Prime Video's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8cd9ab in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Neon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #8cd9ab: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped9 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Still Water put Slate Gray beside #8cd9ab, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8cd9ab in 28 real palettes, including Mint Chip and Rain Garden, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #8cd9ab
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8cd9ab as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.66:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.63:1 | 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 #8cd9ab as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#8cd9ab reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8cd9ab
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #8cd9ab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8cd9ab-a2beb0-ca59d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md