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
#c5e4fc
#c5e4fc
hex
#c5e4fcrgb
rgb(197, 228, 252)hsl
hsl(206, 90%, 88%)oklch
oklch(0.904 0.046 241.4)Closest name: Breaking the Ice (#b8e4f5)Relative luminance 0.7439
Colors that go with #c5e4fc
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 #c5e4fc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
analogousshippedCornflower Blue is #c5e4fc'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 #c5e4fc 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 #c5e4fc'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 #c5e4fc: 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 #c5e4fc — 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 #c5e4fc — 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 #c5e4fc in 21 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #c5e4fc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c5e4fc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.32:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.88:1 | 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 #c5e4fc as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#c5e4fc reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c5e4fc
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 #c5e4fc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c5e4fc-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