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
#8ec3dc
#8ec3dc
hex
#8ec3dcrgb
rgb(142, 195, 220)hsl
hsl(199, 53%, 71%)oklch
oklch(0.789 0.066 228.8)Closest name: Dolphin (#86c4da)Relative luminance 0.4995
Colors that go with #8ec3dc
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Denim 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 #8ec3dc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #8ec3dc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8ec3dc: 5 real palettes, including UEFA's brand system and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Telehealth and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #8ec3dc, as the text colour against it.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8ec3dc in 6 real palettes, including Telehealth and 1password's brand system, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped10 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue put Slate Gray beside #8ec3dc, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8ec3dc in 28 real palettes, including Raycast's brand system and Still Water, as the text colour against it.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedDesigners have shipped Wheat with #8ec3dc: 6 real palettes, including Oatly's brand system and Still Water, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #8ec3dc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8ec3dc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.91:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.99:1 | 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 #8ec3dc as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#8ec3dc reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8ec3dc
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 #8ec3dc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8ec3dc-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.
Machine-readable: color.md