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
#bde5fe
#bde5fe
hex
#bde5fergb
rgb(189, 229, 254)hsl
hsl(203, 97%, 87%)oklch
oklch(0.902 0.054 235.6)Closest name: Breaking the Ice (#b8e4f5)Relative luminance 0.7401
Colors that go with #bde5fe
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Dark Orange 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 #bde5fe: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
analogousshippedCornflower Blue is #bde5fe's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
complementaryshippedDark Orange sits directly opposite #bde5fe on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
analogousshippedDark Turquoise is #bde5fe'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 #bde5fe: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Yellow Green #9acd32
triadicshippedYellow Green completes a triad with #bde5fe — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #bde5fe in 21 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #bde5fe, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #bde5fe
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bde5fe as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.33:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.8:1 | 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 #bde5fe as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#bde5fe reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bde5fe
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 #bde5fe and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bde5fe-9cb0c4-df4e5d-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