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
#a9d4db
#a9d4db
hex
#a9d4dbrgb
rgb(169, 212, 219)hsl
hsl(188, 41%, 76%)oklch
oklch(0.842 0.046 208.5)Closest name: Clear Water (#aad5db)Relative luminance 0.6064
Colors that go with #a9d4db
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Burlywood 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 #a9d4db: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #a9d4db on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #a9d4db in 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a9d4db in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #a9d4db: 8 real palettes, including Mistral AI's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a9d4db: 4 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and Fitbit's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #a9d4db in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a9d4db in 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Canopy, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a9d4db
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a9d4db as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.6:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.13:1 | 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 #a9d4db 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
#a9d4db reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9d4db
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 #a9d4db and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a9d4db-a2b7be-df4e81-1f252d-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