Color

#8eb5cd

#8eb5cd
hex#8eb5cd
rgbrgb(142, 181, 205)
hslhsl(203, 39%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.753 0.054 235.5)
Closest name: Crystal Lake (#88b5c4)Relative luminance 0.4321

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cda68e

#8ecdc6 · #8e95cd

#cd8eb5 · #b5cd8e

Split-complementary

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#cd8e95 · #cdc68e

#c68ecd · #cda68e · #95cd8e

Contrast

#8eb5cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.18:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #447a9c as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #335c75 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
9.64:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8eb5cd 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

#8eb5cd reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8eb5cd
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 #8eb5cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8eb5cd-9cb0c4-df4e5d-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md