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
#cceab8
#cceab8
hex
#cceab8rgb
rgb(204, 234, 184)hsl
hsl(96, 54%, 82%)oklch
oklch(0.902 0.074 133)Closest name: Frozen Forest (#cfe8b6)Relative luminance 0.7514
Colors that go with #cceab8
Charcoal, Lilac and Sand 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 #cceab8: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #cceab8 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sand #c2b280
analogousshippedSand is #cceab8's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
triadicshippedSky Blue completes a triad with #cceab8 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Bumble's brand system put Blue beside #cceab8, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped6 real palettes, including Nursery and Estate put Blush Pink beside #cceab8, as the lead colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #cceab8, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #cceab8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cceab8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.31:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.03:1 | 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 #cceab8 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
#cceab8 reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cceab8
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 #cceab8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cceab8-aabea2-5f4edf-1f2d20-f0f1e9?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