Color
#bce6de
#bce6dergb(188, 230, 222)hsl(169, 46%, 82%)oklch(0.893 0.045 182.4)Colors that go with #bce6de
Charcoal, Lilac and Plum 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 #bce6de: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #bce6de on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #bce6de: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #bce6de in 21 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #bce6de, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #bce6de in 12 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Nursery and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #bce6de, as the lead colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #bce6de, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #bce6de
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bce6de as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.35:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.51:1 | 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 #bce6de 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
#bce6de 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 #bce6de and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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