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
#cde3ba
#cde3ba
hex
#cde3bargb
rgb(205, 227, 186)hsl
hsl(92, 42%, 81%)oklch
oklch(0.889 0.06 130.6)Closest name: Ambrosia (#c6e1bc)Relative luminance 0.7146
Colors that go with #cde3ba
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 #cde3ba: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #cde3ba 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 #cde3ba'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 #cde3ba — 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 #cde3ba in 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Uber's brand system put Blue beside #cde3ba, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #cde3ba, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #cde3ba: 7 real palettes, including Estate and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #cde3ba
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cde3ba as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.37:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.29:1 | 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 #cde3ba 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
#cde3ba reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #cde3ba
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 #cde3ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/cde3ba-acbea2-564edf-202d1f-f1f1e9?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