Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Color
#95d5ee
#95d5ee
hex
#95d5eergb
rgb(149, 213, 238)hsl
hsl(197, 72%, 76%)oklch
oklch(0.839 0.074 224.3)Closest name: Sky Blue (#87ceeb)Relative luminance 0.6015
Colors that go with #95d5ee
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Deep Sky Blue 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 #95d5ee: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #95d5ee on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #95d5ee: 6 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #95d5ee: 4 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Telehealth and Blue Mono put Midnight Blue beside #95d5ee, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #95d5ee — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #95d5ee: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped7 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Still Water put Slate Gray beside #95d5ee, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #95d5ee
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #95d5ee as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.61:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.03:1 | 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 #95d5ee 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
#95d5ee reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #95d5ee
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 #95d5ee and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/95d5ee-9cb4c4-df4e6b-1f232d-e9f1ef?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