Polaroid
Open in tool →Washed coral, faded aqua and a mustard — the 1970s film look, desaturated so it feels found rather than designed.
Color
#8fb7ae
#8fb7ae
hex
#8fb7aergb
rgb(143, 183, 174)hsl
hsl(167, 22%, 64%)oklch
oklch(0.748 0.045 179.7)Closest name: Lichen (#8ebaa6)Relative luminance 0.4276
Colors that go with #8fb7ae
Charcoal, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #8fb7ae: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Canva's brand system put Blue beside #8fb7ae, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #8fb7ae, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #8fb7ae in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #8fb7ae, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #8fb7ae: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #8fb7ae in 4 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Cartier's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #8fb7ae: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #8fb7ae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8fb7ae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.2:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.55:1 | 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 #8fb7ae 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8fb7ae
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 #8fb7ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8fb7ae-a2bebb-d459af-1f2a2d-e9f1ec?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