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
#c3e2f3
#c3e2f3
hex
#c3e2f3rgb
rgb(195, 226, 243)hsl
hsl(201, 67%, 86%)oklch
oklch(0.896 0.04 231.8)Closest name: Breaking the Ice (#b8e4f5)Relative luminance 0.7247
Colors that go with #c3e2f3
Charcoal, Plum and Sand 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 #c3e2f3: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #c3e2f3 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sand #c2b280
split-complementshippedSand is a split-complement of #c3e2f3: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #c3e2f3 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 #c3e2f3 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 #c3e2f3, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #c3e2f3 in 12 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped6 real palettes, including Nursery and Estate put Blush Pink beside #c3e2f3, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #c3e2f3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c3e2f3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.36:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.49:1 | 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 #c3e2f3 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#c3e2f3 reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c3e2f3
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 #c3e2f3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c3e2f3-9cb1c4-df4e62-1f222d-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