Sorbet
Open in tool →Peach, apricot and baby blue on white — a soft consumer-app palette that still gets AA text from a single dark ink.
Color
#cddefe
#cddefe
hex
#cddefergb
rgb(205, 222, 254)hsl
hsl(219, 96%, 90%)oklch
oklch(0.898 0.048 263.1)Closest name: Icy Plains (#cfdafb)Relative luminance 0.7238
Colors that go with #cddefe
Charcoal, Dark Orange and Deep Sky 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 for #cddefe: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
split-complementshippedDark Orange is a split-complement of #cddefe: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #cddefe's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Goldenrod #daa520
complementaryshippedGoldenrod sits directly opposite #cddefe on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Lime Green #32cd32
triadicshippedLime Green completes a triad with #cddefe — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Plum #dda0dd
analogousshippedPlum is #cddefe's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #cddefe in 21 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #cddefe, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #cddefe
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cddefe as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.36:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.48:1 | 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 #cddefe as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Blue Mono
Open in tool →One blue at four lightnesses — monochromatic in the colour-theory sense; the deep step is the text, the pale step the surface tint.
Fonts for this mood
#cddefe reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cddefe
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 #cddefe and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cddefe-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