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
#cdd6ea
#cdd6ea
hex
#cdd6eargb
rgb(205, 214, 234)hsl
hsl(221, 41%, 86%)oklch
oklch(0.875 0.029 266.3)Closest name: Après-Ski (#ced5e4)Relative luminance 0.6701
Colors that go with #cdd6ea
Charcoal, Amber and Blue 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 #cdd6ea without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #cdd6ea 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 #cdd6ea, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #cdd6ea, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #cdd6ea in 6 real palettes, including Velvet and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #cdd6ea: 6 real palettes, including Estate and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #cdd6ea: 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Glacier, as the lead colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #cdd6ea: 9 real palettes, including Bramble and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #cdd6ea
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cdd6ea as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.46:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.4:1 | 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 #cdd6ea as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#cdd6ea reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cdd6ea
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 #cdd6ea and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cdd6ea-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