Color

#8ec5cc

#8ec5cc
hex#8ec5cc
rgbrgb(142, 197, 204)
hslhsl(187, 38%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.788 0.058 205.9)
Closest name: Cerulean Skies (#8cc6cb)Relative luminance 0.5004

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cc968e

#8eccb5 · #8ea6cc

#cc8ec5 · #c5cc8e

Split-complementary

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#cc8ea6 · #ccb58e

#b58ecc · #cc968e · #a6cc8e

Contrast

#8ec5cc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #3e8089 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #2e5f66 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.12:1)
Aaon black
11.01:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8ec5cc 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

#8ec5cc reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8ec5cc
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 #8ec5cc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8ec5cc-a2b8be-df4e83-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md