First Snow
Open in tool →Ice blue on snow-white with a deep navy — the quietest winter palette; everything is a tint of one cold hue.
Color
#bed5ea
#bed5ea
hex
#bed5eargb
rgb(190, 213, 234)hsl
hsl(209, 51%, 83%)oklch
oklch(0.863 0.038 245.8)Closest name: Ariel (#aed7ea)Relative luminance 0.6448
Colors that go with #bed5ea
Charcoal, Sand 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 #bed5ea: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sand #c2b280
complementaryshippedSand sits directly opposite #bed5ea 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 #bed5ea in 5 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #bed5ea, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #bed5ea in 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Velvet, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #bed5ea: 5 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #bed5ea: 7 real palettes, including Bramble and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #bed5ea in 4 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Cartier's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #bed5ea
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #bed5ea as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.51:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.9:1 | 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 #bed5ea as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#bed5ea reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #bed5ea
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 #bed5ea and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bed5ea-9cacc4-df4e4e-1f212d-e9f1f1?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