Rain Garden
Open in tool →Wet-leaf teal and moss with a soft peach — an overcast spring, calmer than the bright version and better for long reading.
Color
#a8cdaf
#a8cdaf
hex
#a8cdafrgb
rgb(168, 205, 175)hsl
hsl(131, 27%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.813 0.057 150.5)Closest name: Gum Leaf (#acc9b2)Relative luminance 0.5508
Colors that go with #a8cdaf
Charcoal, Plum and Champagne 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 #a8cdaf: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryshippedPlum sits directly opposite #a8cdaf on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #a8cdaf, as that palette's text colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #a8cdaf: 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #a8cdaf in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a8cdaf in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including First Snow and Allbirds's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #a8cdaf, as the text colour against it.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped10 real palettes, including Still Water and Sepia Mono put Slate Gray beside #a8cdaf, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a8cdaf
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a8cdaf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.75:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.02:1 | 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 #a8cdaf 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
#a8cdaf reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8cdaf
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 #a8cdaf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a8cdaf-a2beaa-b34edf-1f2d28-ecf1e9?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