Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#97d7e7
#97d7e7
hex
#97d7e7rgb
rgb(151, 215, 231)hsl
hsl(192, 62%, 75%)oklch
oklch(0.842 0.068 215)Closest name: Crystal (#a7d8de)Relative luminance 0.6095
Colors that go with #97d7e7
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Cornflower 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 #97d7e7: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #97d7e7 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #97d7e7: 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #97d7e7 in 5 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #97d7e7: 8 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the lead colour.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #97d7e7: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including First Snow and Blue Mono put Midnight Blue beside #97d7e7, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #97d7e7 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #97d7e7
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #97d7e7 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.59:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.19:1 | 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 #97d7e7 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
#97d7e7 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #97d7e7
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 #97d7e7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/97d7e7-a2b5be-df4e77-1f242d-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