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
#bbdef1
#bbdef1
hex
#bbdef1rgb
rgb(187, 222, 241)hsl
hsl(201, 66%, 84%)oklch
oklch(0.881 0.045 231.7)Closest name: Break the Ice (#b2e1ee)Relative luminance 0.6916
Colors that go with #bbdef1
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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #bbdef1: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #bbdef1 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 #bbdef1 in 8 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #bbdef1, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Velvet and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #bbdef1, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #bbdef1 in 6 real palettes, including Coastal and Velvet, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #bbdef1: 6 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #bbdef1: 9 real palettes, including Bramble and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #bbdef1
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bbdef1 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.42:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.83:1 | 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 #bbdef1 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
#bbdef1 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbdef1
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 #bbdef1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bbdef1-9cb1c4-df4e62-1f222d-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