First Snow
Open in tool →Ice blue on snow-white with a deep navy — the quietest winter palette; everything is a tint of one cold hue.
Color
#86accargb(134, 172, 202)hsl(206, 39%, 66%)oklch(0.727 0.06 242.4)Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Amber 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 is the text near-black for #86acca: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon sits directly opposite #86acca on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber is paired with #86acca in 4 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Blueprint, as the lead colour.
4 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Uber's brand system put Blue beside #86acca, as the accent.
Dark Orange shows up next to #86acca in 4 real palettes, including Elastic's brand system and Learning App, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #86acca: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Dodger Blue with #86acca: 5 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent.
10 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #86acca, as the text colour against it.
| #86acca as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.4:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.77:1 | 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 #86acca as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#86acca reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #86acca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/86acca-9caec4-df4e56-1f212d-e9f1f1?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