Deep Water
Open in tool →Cyan and mid-blue on abyss navy with a foam highlight — the ocean at depth; the darker the surface, the brighter the water.
Named color
#d1eaedrgb(209, 234, 237)hsl(186, 44%, 87%)oklch(0.92 0.027 205.4)Castle In The Sky on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.
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 is the text near-black that reads cleanly against Castle in the Sky without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber is paired with Castle in the Sky in 21 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent.
47 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside Castle in the Sky, as the accent.
Blue Violet is paired with Castle in the Sky in 12 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
7 real palettes, including Estate and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside Castle in the Sky, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including Velvet and Woodsmoke put Brown beside Castle in the Sky, as the lead colour.
5 real palettes, including Candlelight and Heinz's brand system put Burgundy beside Castle in the Sky, as the lead colour.
Burlywood is paired with Castle in the Sky in 8 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Kiln, as the lead colour.
| Castle in the Sky as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.26:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.7:1 | 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 Castle in the Sky as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Castle in the Sky reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #d1eaed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/d1eaed-a2b8be-df4e86-1f262d-e9f1ee?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