Frost & Ember
Open in tool →Navy and frost with one ember red — the classic cold-with-a-warm-accent structure, borrowed from a thousand ski posters.
Color
#97d9dd
#97d9dd
hex
#97d9ddrgb
rgb(151, 217, 221)hsl
hsl(183, 51%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.843 0.067 200.7)Closest name: Cold Blue (#88dddd)Relative luminance 0.6143
Colors that go with #97d9dd
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Crimson 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 #97d9dd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #97d9dd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #97d9dd in 4 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Formula 1's brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #97d9dd: 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 #97d9dd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including First Snow and Blue Mono put Midnight Blue beside #97d9dd, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #97d9dd — 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 #97d9dd: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #97d9dd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #97d9dd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.58:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.29:1 | 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 #97d9dd 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
#97d9dd reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #97d9dd
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 #97d9dd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/97d9dd-a2b9be-d4598e-1f262d-e9f1ee?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