Dusty Blue
Open in tool →Dusty blue and mist with a nude accent — the quiet wedding palette; nothing here competes with a photograph.
Color
#b5ccd9
#b5ccd9
hex
#b5ccd9rgb
rgb(181, 204, 217)hsl
hsl(202, 32%, 78%)oklch
oklch(0.832 0.031 232.5)Closest name: Cloudy Valley (#b1c6d6)Relative luminance 0.5802
Colors that go with #b5ccd9
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 #b5ccd9: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #b5ccd9 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 #b5ccd9 in 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #b5ccd9 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #b5ccd9: 7 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #b5ccd9: 4 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and Fitbit's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #b5ccd9 in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Lilac #c8a2c8
triadicshippedLilac completes a triad with #b5ccd9 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #b5ccd9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b5ccd9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.67:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.6:1 | 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 #b5ccd9 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
#b5ccd9 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b5ccd9
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 #b5ccd9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b5ccd9-9cb1c4-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