Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#afd2de
#afd2de
hex
#afd2dergb
rgb(175, 210, 222)hsl
hsl(195, 42%, 78%)oklch
oklch(0.842 0.041 220.6)Closest name: Clear Water (#aad5db)Relative luminance 0.6048
Colors that go with #afd2de
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 #afd2de: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #afd2de 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 #afd2de in 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #afd2de: 4 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #afd2de: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Bramble, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #afd2de in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #afd2de: 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 #afd2de: 5 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and Fitbit's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #afd2de
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #afd2de as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.6:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.1:1 | 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 #afd2de 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
#afd2de reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #afd2de
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 #afd2de and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/afd2de-9cb5c4-df4e70-1f242d-e9f1ef?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