Color

#8ec9dc

#8ec9dc
hex#8ec9dc
rgbrgb(142, 201, 220)
hslhsl(195, 53%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.802 0.066 219.9)
Closest name: Dolphin (#86c4da)Relative luminance 0.5269

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#dca18e

#8edcc9 · #8ea1dc

#dc8ec9 · #c9dc8e

Split-complementary

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#dc8ea1 · #dcc98e

#c98edc · #dca18e · #a1dc8e

Contrast

#8ec9dc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #2f7e98 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #235e71 as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4f4f4f (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.25:1)
Aaon black
11.54:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8ec9dc as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#8ec9dc reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8ec9dc
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 #8ec9dc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8ec9dc-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md