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
#bbe1fb
#bbe1fb
hex
#bbe1fbrgb
rgb(187, 225, 251)hsl
hsl(204, 89%, 86%)oklch
oklch(0.891 0.054 238.1)Closest name: Broad Daylight (#bbddff)Relative luminance 0.7138
Colors that go with #bbe1fb
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Goldenrod 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 #bbe1fb: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
analogousshippedCornflower Blue is #bbe1fb's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Goldenrod #daa520
split-complementshippedGoldenrod is a split-complement of #bbe1fb: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
complementaryshippedDark Orange sits directly opposite #bbe1fb 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 #bbe1fb 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 #bbe1fb, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Nursery and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #bbe1fb, as the lead colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Velvet and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #bbe1fb, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #bbe1fb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bbe1fb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.37:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.28:1 | 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 #bbe1fb 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
#bbe1fb reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbe1fb
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 #bbe1fb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bbe1fb-9cafc4-df4e5a-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