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
#ccd8ef
#ccd8ef
hex
#ccd8efrgb
rgb(204, 216, 239)hsl
hsl(219, 52%, 87%)oklch
oklch(0.88 0.034 263.6)Closest name: Fly a Kite (#c8daf5)Relative luminance 0.6818
Colors that go with #ccd8ef
Charcoal, Deep 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 text near-black for #ccd8ef: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #ccd8ef's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Lilac #c8a2c8
analogousshippedLilac is #ccd8ef'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 #ccd8ef 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 #ccd8ef in 8 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #ccd8ef, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Velvet and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #ccd8ef, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ccd8ef in 6 real palettes, including Velvet and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #ccd8ef
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ccd8ef as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.43:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.64:1 | 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 #ccd8ef as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#ccd8ef reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ccd8ef
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 #ccd8ef and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ccd8ef-9ca5c4-df664e-211f2d-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