Color

#a8d8ea

#a8d8ea
hex#a8d8ea
rgbrgb(168, 216, 234)
hslhsl(196, 61%, 79%)
oklchoklch(0.854 0.056 222.9)
Closest name: Ariel (#aed7ea)Relative luminance 0.6338

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#eabaa9

#a9eadb · #a9b8ea

#eaa9d9 · #d9eaa9

Split-complementary

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#eaa9b8 · #eadba9

#dba9ea · #eabaa9 · #b8eaa9

Contrast

#a8d8ea as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.54:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #267c9c as the text (4.72:1)
  • AAA: use #1d5f77 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #595959 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (7.07:1)
Aaon black
13.68:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a8d8ea 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

#a8d8ea reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8d8ea
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 #a8d8ea and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8d8ea-9cb5c4-df4e6e-1f232d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md