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
#aed5d5
#aed5d5
hex
#aed5d5rgb
rgb(174, 213, 213)hsl
hsl(180, 32%, 76%)oklch
oklch(0.845 0.041 196.4)Closest name: Clear Water (#aad5db)Relative luminance 0.6139
Colors that go with #aed5d5
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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #aed5d5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #aed5d5 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 #aed5d5 in 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Chalkboard, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #aed5d5 in 4 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #aed5d5 in 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Bramble, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #aed5d5 in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #aed5d5 in 6 real palettes, including Mistral AI's brand system and Calendly's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #aed5d5 in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #aed5d5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aed5d5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.58:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.28:1 | 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 #aed5d5 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
#aed5d5 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #aed5d5
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 #aed5d5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/aed5d5-a2bbbe-d45994-1f272d-e9f1ed?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