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
#c4daed
#c4daed
hex
#c4daedrgb
rgb(196, 218, 237)hsl
hsl(208, 53%, 85%)oklch
oklch(0.878 0.035 244.2)Closest name: Fly a Kite (#c8daf5)Relative luminance 0.6799
Colors that go with #c4daed
Charcoal, Lilac 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 #c4daed: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Lilac #c8a2c8
triadicshippedLilac completes a triad with #c4daed — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sand #c2b280
complementaryshippedSand sits directly opposite #c4daed 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 #c4daed in 8 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #c4daed, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #c4daed, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #c4daed in 6 real palettes, including Velvet and Coastal, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #c4daed: 6 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #c4daed
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c4daed as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.44:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.6:1 | 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 #c4daed as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#c4daed reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c4daed
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 #c4daed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c4daed-9cadc4-df4e51-1f212d-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