Color

#a8ade6

#a8ade6
hex#a8ade6
rgbrgb(168, 173, 230)
hslhsl(235, 55%, 78%)
oklchoklch(0.764 0.082 280.4)
Closest name: Adrift on the Nile (#93b8e3)Relative luminance 0.4393

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#e6e1a8

#a8cce6 · #c2a8e6

#e6a8ad · #ade6a8

Split-complementary

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#e6c2a8 · #cce6a8

#e6a8cc · #e6e1a8 · #a8e6c2

Contrast

#a8ade6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.15:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #616ad1 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #3d49c7 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
9.79:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8ade6 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

#a8ade6 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8ade6
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 #a8ade6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8ade6-9e9cc4-df8d4e-241f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md