Harbour
Open in tool →Steel blue and haze with a buoy orange on a pale grey — the maritime palette every port town uses for a reason.
Color
#8ebedc
#8ebedc
hex
#8ebedcrgb
rgb(142, 190, 220)hsl
hsl(203, 53%, 71%)oklch
oklch(0.778 0.066 236.2)Closest name: Double Denim (#95bce1)Relative luminance 0.4775
Colors that go with #8ebedc
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Amber 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 #8ebedc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #8ebedc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #8ebedc in 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #8ebedc in 4 real palettes, including PayPal's brand system and Learning App, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8ebedc: 5 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Open House, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Telehealth and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #8ebedc, as the text colour against it.
Periwinkle #ccccff
shippedPeriwinkle shows up next to #8ebedc in 4 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Mistral AI's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #8ebedc: 6 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #8ebedc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8ebedc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.99:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.55:1 | 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 #8ebedc as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#8ebedc reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8ebedc
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 #8ebedc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8ebedc-9cb0c4-df4e5d-1f222d-e9f1f0?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