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
#c3e4fe
#c3e4fe
hex
#c3e4fergb
rgb(195, 228, 254)hsl
hsl(206, 97%, 88%)oklch
oklch(0.903 0.05 241.9)Closest name: Breaking the Ice (#b8e4f5)Relative luminance 0.7424
Colors that go with #c3e4fe
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 #c3e4fe: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
analogousshippedCornflower Blue is #c3e4fe'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 #c3e4fe 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 #c3e4fe'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 #c3e4fe: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Coral #f08080
triadicshippedLight Coral completes a triad with #c3e4fe — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Yellow Green #9acd32
triadicshippedYellow Green completes a triad with #c3e4fe — 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 #c3e4fe in 21 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #c3e4fe
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c3e4fe as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.33:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.85:1 | 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 #c3e4fe as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#c3e4fe reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c3e4fe
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 #c3e4fe and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c3e4fe-9caec4-df4e56-1f212d-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