Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#abdce3
#abdce3
hex
#abdce3rgb
rgb(171, 220, 227)hsl
hsl(187, 50%, 78%)oklch
oklch(0.863 0.052 207.1)Closest name: Powder Blue (#b0e0e6)Relative luminance 0.6539
Colors that go with #abdce3
Charcoal, Sand and Dark Salmon 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 #abdce3: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sand #c2b280
triadicshippedSand completes a triad with #abdce3 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #abdce3 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 #abdce3 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 #abdce3, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #abdce3 in 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #abdce3: 4 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #abdce3: 6 real palettes, including Bramble and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #abdce3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #abdce3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.49:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.08:1 | 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 #abdce3 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
Macaron
Open in tool →Rose, sky and pistachio at patisserie strength — the pastel trio, with a plum-grey text colour so it never washes out.
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.
Fonts for this mood
#abdce3 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #abdce3
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 #abdce3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/abdce3-a2b8be-df4e83-1f262d-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