Macaron
Open in tool →Rose, sky and pistachio at patisserie strength — the pastel trio, with a plum-grey text colour so it never washes out.
Color
#c9ebbd
#c9ebbd
hex
#c9ebbdrgb
rgb(201, 235, 189)hsl
hsl(104, 53%, 83%)oklch
oklch(0.904 0.071 137.6)Closest name: Frozen Forest (#cfe8b6)Relative luminance 0.7551
Colors that go with #c9ebbd
Charcoal, Lilac and Amber 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 body-text near-black for #c9ebbd: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #c9ebbd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #c9ebbd, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #c9ebbd in 12 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Estate and Nursery put Blush Pink beside #c9ebbd, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #c9ebbd, as the accent.
Burgundy #800020
shipped5 real palettes, including Candlelight and Heinz's brand system put Burgundy beside #c9ebbd, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #c9ebbd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #c9ebbd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.3:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.1:1 | 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 #c9ebbd as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#c9ebbd reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #c9ebbd
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 #c9ebbd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/c9ebbd-a6bea2-724edf-1f2d22-eff1e9?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