Dusty Blue
Open in tool →Dusty blue and mist with a nude accent — the quiet wedding palette; nothing here competes with a photograph.
Color
#aecce0
#aecce0
hex
#aecce0rgb
rgb(174, 204, 224)hsl
hsl(204, 45%, 78%)oklch
oklch(0.83 0.043 237.2)Closest name: Cloudy Valley (#b1c6d6)Relative luminance 0.5757
Colors that go with #aecce0
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Deep Sky 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 #aecce0: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #aecce0 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #aecce0: 7 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #aecce0: 4 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and Fitbit's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including First Snow and Blue Mono put Midnight Blue beside #aecce0, as the text colour against it.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #aecce0: 5 real palettes, including Stone and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped10 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Still Water put Slate Gray beside #aecce0, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #aecce0 in 25 real palettes, including Macaron and Nursery, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #aecce0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aecce0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.68:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.51:1 | 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 #aecce0 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
#aecce0 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #aecce0
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 #aecce0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/aecce0-9cafc4-df4e5a-1f222d-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