Color
#bce6da
#bce6dargb(188, 230, 218)hsl(163, 46%, 82%)oklch(0.892 0.047 176)Colors that go with #bce6da
Charcoal, Lilac 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 #bce6da: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #bce6da on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #bce6da in 4 real palettes, including Gemstone and Twitch's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #bce6da in 5 real palettes, including Nursery and Rain Garden, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with #bce6da in 4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #bce6da in 6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Chalkboard, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #bce6da in 9 real palettes, including Estate and Dusk, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #bce6da
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bce6da as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.36:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.47:1 | 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 #bce6da as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#bce6da reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #bce6da and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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