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
#abc4d8
#abc4d8
hex
#abc4d8rgb
rgb(171, 196, 216)hsl
hsl(207, 37%, 76%)oklch
oklch(0.808 0.039 242.2)Closest name: Cloudy Valley (#b1c6d6)Relative luminance 0.531
Colors that go with #abc4d8
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Midnight 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 #abc4d8: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #abc4d8 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #abc4d8 in 7 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Telehealth, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #abc4d8 in 4 real palettes, including Stone and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #abc4d8 in 11 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #abc4d8 in 26 real palettes, including Still Water and Graphite Mono, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Terracotta #e2725b
shippedTerracotta is paired with #abc4d8 in 4 real palettes, including Harbour and Anthropic's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #abc4d8 in 4 real palettes, including Still Water and Mint Chip, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #abc4d8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #abc4d8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.81:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.62:1 | 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 #abc4d8 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
#abc4d8 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #abc4d8
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 #abc4d8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/abc4d8-9cadc4-df4e53-1f212d-e9f1f1?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