Still Water
Open in tool →Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Color
#a4cbd5
#a4cbd5
hex
#a4cbd5rgb
rgb(164, 203, 213)hsl
hsl(192, 37%, 74%)oklch
oklch(0.817 0.044 215.1)Closest name: Cloudy Valley (#b1c6d6)Relative luminance 0.5541
Colors that go with #a4cbd5
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 #a4cbd5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #a4cbd5 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 #a4cbd5 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 #a4cbd5: 7 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a4cbd5: 5 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and Fitbit's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including First Snow and Telehealth put Midnight Blue beside #a4cbd5, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #a4cbd5 — 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 #a4cbd5: 5 real palettes, including Stone and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #a4cbd5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a4cbd5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.74:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.08:1 | 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 #a4cbd5 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#a4cbd5 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a4cbd5
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 #a4cbd5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a4cbd5-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