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
#cbdaf0
#cbdaf0
hex
#cbdaf0rgb
rgb(203, 218, 240)hsl
hsl(216, 55%, 87%)oklch
oklch(0.884 0.034 257.9)Closest name: Fly a Kite (#c8daf5)Relative luminance 0.6913
Colors that go with #cbdaf0
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Emerald Green 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 for #cbdaf0: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #cbdaf0's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Emerald Green #50c878
triadicshippedEmerald Green completes a triad with #cbdaf0 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Lilac #c8a2c8
analogousshippedLilac is #cbdaf0's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sand #c2b280
complementaryshippedSand sits directly opposite #cbdaf0 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #cbdaf0 in 8 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #cbdaf0, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Velvet and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #cbdaf0, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #cbdaf0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cbdaf0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.42:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.83:1 | 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 #cbdaf0 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#cbdaf0 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cbdaf0
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 #cbdaf0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cbdaf0-9ca7c4-df5f4e-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