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
#cad4e2
#cad4e2
hex
#cad4e2rgb
rgb(202, 212, 226)hsl
hsl(215, 29%, 84%)oklch
oklch(0.867 0.022 256.7)Closest name: Ephemeral Blue (#cbd4df)Relative luminance 0.6513
Colors that go with #cad4e2
Charcoal, Amber and Blue 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 that reads cleanly against #cad4e2 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #cad4e2 in 5 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #cad4e2, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #cad4e2, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #cad4e2 in 6 real palettes, including Coastal and Velvet, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #cad4e2: 6 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #cad4e2: 9 real palettes, including Bramble and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cad4e2 in 6 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Cartier's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #cad4e2
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cad4e2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.5:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.03:1 | 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 #cad4e2 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#cad4e2 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cad4e2
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 #cad4e2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cad4e2-9ca8c4-df5d4e-201f2d-e9f0f1?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