Deep Water
Open in tool →Cyan and mid-blue on abyss navy with a foam highlight — the ocean at depth; the darker the surface, the brighter the water.
Color
#bdf6ff
#bdf6ff
hex
#bdf6ffrgb
rgb(189, 246, 255)hsl
hsl(188, 100%, 87%)oklch
oklch(0.937 0.059 208.2)Closest name: Glacial Drift (#c3fbf4)Relative luminance 0.8395
Colors that go with #bdf6ff
Charcoal, Dark Orange and Deep Sky Blue 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 #bdf6ff: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
split-complementshippedDark Orange is a split-complement of #bdf6ff: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #bdf6ff's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Goldenrod #daa520
triadicshippedGoldenrod completes a triad with #bdf6ff — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #bdf6ff in 8 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Instacart's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #bdf6ff in 6 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp'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 #bdf6ff in 6 real palettes, including Estate and Rain Garden, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #bdf6ff
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bdf6ff as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.18:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.79:1 | 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 #bdf6ff 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
#bdf6ff reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdf6ff
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 #bdf6ff and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bdf6ff-a2b7be-df4e81-1f252d-e9f1ee?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