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.
Color
#aed3d5rgb(174, 211, 213)hsl(183, 32%, 76%)oklch(0.841 0.039 200.5)Charcoal, Dark Salmon 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 is the text near-black for #aed3d5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon sits directly opposite #aed3d5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood is paired with #aed3d5 in 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #aed3d5: 4 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #aed3d5: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green shows up next to #aed3d5 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #aed3d5: 8 real palettes, including Mistral AI's brand system and Calendly's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #aed3d5: 5 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and Fitbit's brand system, as the supporting colour.
| #aed3d5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.61:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.08:1 | 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 #aed3d5 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#aed3d5 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #aed3d5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/aed3d5-a2b9be-d4598e-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