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
#c9e2fc
#c9e2fc
hex
#c9e2fcrgb
rgb(201, 226, 252)hsl
hsl(211, 89%, 89%)oklch
oklch(0.903 0.045 249.4)Closest name: Cold Shoulder (#d4e0ef)Relative luminance 0.7384
Colors that go with #c9e2fc
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Goldenrod 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 #c9e2fc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #c9e2fc'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 #c9e2fc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Light Coral #f08080
triadicshippedLight Coral completes a triad with #c9e2fc — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Lilac #c8a2c8
analogousshippedLilac is #c9e2fc's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Yellow Green #9acd32
triadicshippedYellow Green completes a triad with #c9e2fc — 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 #c9e2fc in 21 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #c9e2fc, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #c9e2fc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c9e2fc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.33:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.77:1 | 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 #c9e2fc as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#c9e2fc reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9e2fc
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 #c9e2fc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c9e2fc-9cabc4-df534e-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