Color

#a8b0cd

#a8b0cd
hex#a8b0cd
rgbrgb(168, 176, 205)
hslhsl(227, 27%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.76 0.043 273.2)
Closest name: Ethereal Mist (#b0b8cc)Relative luminance 0.4378

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cdc5a8

#a8c2cd · #b2a8cd

#cda8b0 · #b0cda8

Split-complementary

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#cdb2a8 · #c2cda8

#cda8c2 · #cdc5a8 · #a8cdb2

Contrast

#a8b0cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.15:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6472a6 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #4a5682 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
9.76:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8b0cd 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

#a8b0cd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8b0cd
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 #a8b0cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8b0cd-9ca0c4-df7a4e-221f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md