Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#aadcee
#aadcee
hex
#aadceergb
rgb(170, 220, 238)hsl
hsl(196, 67%, 80%)oklch
oklch(0.866 0.057 222)Closest name: lightblue (#add8e6)Relative luminance 0.6591
Colors that go with #aadcee
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Amber 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 #aadcee: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #aadcee on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #aadcee in 4 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #aadcee, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #aadcee in 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Velvet, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #aadcee: 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Estate, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #aadcee: 6 real palettes, including Bramble and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #aadcee in 7 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #aadcee
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aadcee as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.48:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.18:1 | 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 #aadcee 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
#aadcee reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #aadcee
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 #aadcee and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/aadcee-9cb5c4-df4e6e-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