Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#add4f0
#add4f0
hex
#add4f0rgb
rgb(173, 212, 240)hsl
hsl(205, 69%, 81%)oklch
oklch(0.851 0.057 239.6)Closest name: Ariel (#aed7ea)Relative luminance 0.6226
Colors that go with #add4f0
Charcoal, Sandy Brown 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 #add4f0: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sandy Brown #f4a460
complementaryshippedSandy Brown sits directly opposite #add4f0 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 #add4f0 in 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Velvet, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #add4f0: 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Estate, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #add4f0 in 4 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #add4f0 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #add4f0: 7 real palettes, including Mistral AI's brand system and Calendly's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #add4f0: 5 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and Fitbit's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #add4f0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #add4f0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.56:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.45:1 | 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 #add4f0 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
#add4f0 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #add4f0
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 #add4f0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/add4f0-9cafc4-df4e58-1f212d-e9f1f0?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