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
#cbe5ae
#cbe5ae
hex
#cbe5aergb
rgb(203, 229, 174)hsl
hsl(88, 51%, 79%)oklch
oklch(0.889 0.078 128.5)Closest name: Frozen Forest (#cfe8b6)Relative luminance 0.7179
Colors that go with #cbe5ae
Charcoal, Sky Blue and Lilac 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 #cbe5ae: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
triadicshippedSky Blue completes a triad with #cbe5ae — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #cbe5ae 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 #cbe5ae in 6 real palettes, including Trailhead and Blueprint, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #cbe5ae in 4 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Dropbox's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with #cbe5ae in 4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #cbe5ae in 7 real palettes, including Diner and Estate, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #cbe5ae in 9 real palettes, including Bramble and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #cbe5ae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cbe5ae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.37:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.36:1 | 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 #cbe5ae 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
#cbe5ae reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cbe5ae
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 #cbe5ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cbe5ae-aebea2-4e51df-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