Sorbet
Open in tool →Peach, apricot and baby blue on white — a soft consumer-app palette that still gets AA text from a single dark ink.
Color
#bbddf7
#bbddf7
hex
#bbddf7rgb
rgb(187, 221, 247)hsl
hsl(206, 79%, 85%)oklch
oklch(0.881 0.051 241.1)Closest name: Broad Daylight (#bbddff)Relative luminance 0.6899
Colors that go with #bbddf7
Charcoal, Goldenrod 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 text near-black for #bbddf7: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Goldenrod #daa520
split-complementshippedGoldenrod is a split-complement of #bbddf7: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
analogousshippedLilac is #bbddf7's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sandy Brown #f4a460
complementaryshippedSandy Brown sits directly opposite #bbddf7 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 #bbddf7 in 6 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 #bbddf7, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Velvet and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #bbddf7, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #bbddf7 in 6 real palettes, including Coastal and Velvet, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #bbddf7
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bbddf7 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.42:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.8:1 | 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 #bbddf7 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Blue Mono
Open in tool →One blue at four lightnesses — monochromatic in the colour-theory sense; the deep step is the text, the pale step the surface tint.
Fonts for this mood
#bbddf7 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbddf7
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 #bbddf7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bbddf7-9caec4-df4e56-1f212d-e9f1f1?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