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
#cae8a6
#cae8a6
hex
#cae8a6rgb
rgb(202, 232, 166)hsl
hsl(87, 59%, 78%)oklch
oklch(0.893 0.092 128)Closest name: Ice Ice (#baebae)Relative luminance 0.7302
Colors that go with #cae8a6
Charcoal, Lilac and Sky 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 body-text near-black for #cae8a6: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #cae8a6 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
triadicshippedSky Blue completes a triad with #cae8a6 — 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 #cae8a6 in 5 real palettes, including Trailhead and Ember, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #cae8a6, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #cae8a6: 5 real palettes, including Diner and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #cae8a6: 8 real palettes, including Bramble and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cae8a6 in 11 real palettes, including Diner and Wise's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #cae8a6
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cae8a6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.35:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.6:1 | 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 #cae8a6 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
#cae8a6 reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cae8a6
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 #cae8a6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cae8a6-aebea2-4e53df-212d1f-f1f1e9?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