Color

#8ec9cd

#8ec9cd
hex#8ec9cd
rgbrgb(142, 201, 205)
hslhsl(184, 39%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.797 0.061 201.3)
Closest name: Cerulean Skies (#8cc6cb)Relative luminance 0.5193

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cd928e

#8ecdb2 · #8ea9cd

#cd8ec9 · #c9cd8e

Split-complementary

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#cd8ea9 · #cdb28e

#b28ecd · #cd928e · #a9cd8e

Contrast

#8ec9cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.84:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #3a7e83 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #2c6063 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
11.39:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8ec9cd 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

#8ec9cd reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8ec9cd
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 #8ec9cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8ec9cd-a2b9be-df4e8a-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md