Open House
Open in tool →Steel blue for trust, warm gold for the sold moment — an approachable brokerage that still feels established.
Color
#8ea1b4
#8ea1b4
hex
#8ea1b4rgb
rgb(142, 161, 180)hsl
hsl(210, 20%, 63%)oklch
oklch(0.701 0.035 248.3)Closest name: Blank Stare (#8b9cac)Relative luminance 0.3454
Colors that go with #8ea1b4
Charcoal, Peru and Burlywood 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 #8ea1b4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Peru #cd853f
complementaryshippedPeru sits directly opposite #8ea1b4 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #8ea1b4 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #8ea1b4: 8 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
analogousshippedCornflower Blue is #8ea1b4's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #8ea1b4: 4 real palettes, including Calm's brand system and Snowflake AI Data Cloud's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8ea1b4: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #8ea1b4: 5 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Patreon's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #8ea1b4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8ea1b4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.66:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.91:1 | 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 #8ea1b4 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8ea1b4
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 #8ea1b4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8ea1b4-9cabc4-df514e-1f202d-e9f1f1?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