Frost & Ember
Open in tool →Navy and frost with one ember red — the classic cold-with-a-warm-accent structure, borrowed from a thousand ski posters.
Color
#b5dede
#b5dede
hex
#b5dedergb
rgb(181, 222, 222)hsl
hsl(180, 38%, 79%)oklch
oklch(0.871 0.043 196.4)Closest name: Catch the Wave (#b5dcd8)Relative luminance 0.6734
Colors that go with #b5dede
Charcoal, Lilac and Sand 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 #b5dede: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #b5dede: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sand #c2b280
triadicshippedSand completes a triad with #b5dede — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #b5dede 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 #b5dede in 5 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #b5dede, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #b5dede, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #b5dede in 6 real palettes, including Coastal and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #b5dede
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #b5dede as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.45:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.47:1 | 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 #b5dede 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
#b5dede reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #b5dede
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 #b5dede and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/b5dede-a2bbbe-d45994-1f272d-e9f1ed?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