Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#afdaf3
#afdaf3
hex
#afdaf3rgb
rgb(175, 218, 243)hsl
hsl(202, 74%, 82%)oklch
oklch(0.866 0.057 233.8)Closest name: Ariel (#aed7ea)Relative luminance 0.6573
Colors that go with #afdaf3
Charcoal, Goldenrod and Dark Salmon 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 #afdaf3: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Goldenrod #daa520
split-complementshippedGoldenrod is a split-complement of #afdaf3: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #afdaf3 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #afdaf3 in 4 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Velvet and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #afdaf3, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #afdaf3 in 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Velvet, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #afdaf3: 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Estate, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #afdaf3: 6 real palettes, including Bramble and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #afdaf3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #afdaf3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.48:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.15:1 | 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 #afdaf3 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#afdaf3 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #afdaf3
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 #afdaf3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/afdaf3-9cb1c4-df4e5f-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