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
#cde3a5
#cde3a5
hex
#cde3a5rgb
rgb(205, 227, 165)hsl
hsl(81, 53%, 77%)oklch
oklch(0.884 0.085 124)Closest name: Frozen Forest (#cfe8b6)Relative luminance 0.7063
Colors that go with #cde3a5
Charcoal, Lilac and 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 body-text near-black for #cde3a5: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #cde3a5 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
triadicshippedSky Blue completes a triad with #cde3a5 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #cde3a5 in 4 real palettes, including Trailhead and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #cde3a5, as the supporting colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #cde3a5, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #cde3a5: 4 real palettes, including Diner and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #cde3a5: 7 real palettes, including Bramble and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #cde3a5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cde3a5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.39:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.13:1 | 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 #cde3a5 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
#cde3a5 reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cde3a5
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 #cde3a5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cde3a5-b1bea2-4e62df-222d1f-f1f0e9?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