Color
#8eabb8
#8eabb8rgb(142, 171, 184)hsl(199, 23%, 64%)oklch(0.724 0.037 226.8)Colors that go with #8eabb8
Charcoal, Dark Salmon 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 #8eabb8: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #8eabb8 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 #8eabb8 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Darkroom put Champagne beside #8eabb8, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #8eabb8: 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
analogousshippedCornflower Blue is #8eabb8's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #8eabb8 in 4 real palettes, including Riot Games's brand system and JBL's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8eabb8 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #8eabb8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8eabb8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.42:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.67:1 | 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 #8eabb8 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #8eabb8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/8eabb8-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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