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.
Named color
Broad Daylight
#bbddff
hex
#bbddffrgb
rgb(187, 221, 255)hsl
hsl(210, 100%, 87%)oklch
oklch(0.884 0.059 248.5)Relative luminance 0.695
Broad Daylight on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the 3 public brands that use it and the palettes it appears in.
Colors that go with Broad Daylight
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue 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 Broad Daylight: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
analogousshippedCornflower Blue is Broad Daylight's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is Broad Daylight's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Goldenrod #daa520
complementaryshippedGoldenrod sits directly opposite Broad Daylight 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 Broad Daylight in 5 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside Broad Daylight, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Velvet and Woodsmoke put Brown beside Broad Daylight, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with Broad Daylight in 6 real palettes, including Coastal and Velvet, as the accent.
Real palettes that use Broad Daylight
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Broad Daylight as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.41:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.9:1 | 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 Broad Daylight as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Blue Mono
Open in tool →One blue at four lightnesses — monochromatic in the colour-theory sense; the deep step is the text, the pale step the surface tint.
Fonts for this mood
Broad Daylight reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around Broad Daylight
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 #bbddff and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/bbddff-9cabc4-df514e-1f202d-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