Named color
April Showers
#dadeb5rgb(218, 222, 181)hsl(66, 38%, 79%)oklch(0.887 0.054 112)April Showers on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.
Colors that go with April Showers
Charcoal, Emerald Green and Lilac 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 body-text near-black for April Showers: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Emerald Green #50c878
analogousshippedEmerald Green is April Showers's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite April Showers on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sand #c2b280
analogousshippedSand is April Showers's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
triadicshippedSky Blue completes a triad with April Showers — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with April Showers in 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Bumble's brand system put Blue beside April Showers, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside April Showers, as the accent.
Real palettes that use April Showers
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| April Showers as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.39:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.1:1 | 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 April Showers as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
April Showers reads as light, clean. 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 #dadeb5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/dadeb5-b8bea2-4e86df-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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