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
#bbe3f6
#bbe3f6
hex
#bbe3f6rgb
rgb(187, 227, 246)hsl
hsl(199, 77%, 85%)oklch
oklch(0.893 0.049 228.3)Closest name: Breaking the Ice (#b8e4f5)Relative luminance 0.7216
Colors that go with #bbe3f6
Charcoal, Dark Turquoise 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 #bbe3f6: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
analogousshippedDark Turquoise is #bbe3f6'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 #bbe3f6: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Coral #f08080
split-complementshippedLight Coral is a split-complement of #bbe3f6: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #bbe3f6 — 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 #bbe3f6 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 #bbe3f6 in 17 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped39 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #bbe3f6, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #bbe3f6
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bbe3f6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.36:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.43:1 | 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 #bbe3f6 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
#bbe3f6 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bbe3f6
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 #bbe3f6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bbe3f6-9cb3c4-df4e66-1f232d-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