Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Named color
#aed7eargb(174, 215, 234)hsl(199, 59%, 80%)oklch(0.856 0.05 227.8)Ariel 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.
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Amber 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 Ariel: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon sits directly opposite Ariel on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber is paired with Ariel in 4 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside Ariel, as the accent.
Burlywood is paired with Ariel in 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Velvet, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with Ariel: 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Estate, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with Ariel: 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Crimson is paired with Ariel in 4 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the accent.
| Ariel as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.53:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.71:1 | 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 Ariel as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Rose, sky and pistachio at patisserie strength — the pastel trio, with a plum-grey text colour so it never washes out.
Ariel reads as cool, 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 #aed7ea and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/aed7ea-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-e9f1f0?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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