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
#cbd4e7
#cbd4e7
hex
#cbd4e7rgb
rgb(203, 212, 231)hsl
hsl(221, 37%, 85%)oklch
oklch(0.869 0.028 265.4)Closest name: Après-Ski (#ced5e4)Relative luminance 0.6555
Colors that go with #cbd4e7
Charcoal, Brown and Burlywood 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 #cbd4e7 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with #cbd4e7 in 4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #cbd4e7 in 6 real palettes, including Coastal and Velvet, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #cbd4e7 in 6 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #cbd4e7 in 9 real palettes, including Bramble and Dusk, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #cbd4e7 in 4 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Cartier's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #cbd4e7 in 9 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #cbd4e7 in 7 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #cbd4e7
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cbd4e7 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.49:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.11:1 | 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 #cbd4e7 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#cbd4e7 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cbd4e7
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 #cbd4e7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cbd4e7-9ca4c4-df6b4e-211f2d-e9eff1?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