Color
#cdeafe
#cdeafergb(205, 234, 254)hsl(204, 96%, 90%)oklch(0.922 0.041 238.1)Colors that go with #cdeafe
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Dark Orange 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 #cdeafe: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
analogousshippedCornflower Blue is #cdeafe's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
complementaryshippedDark Orange sits directly opposite #cdeafe on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Turquoise #00ced1
analogousshippedDark Turquoise is #cdeafe's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Goldenrod #daa520
split-complementshippedGoldenrod is a split-complement of #cdeafe: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Yellow Green #9acd32
triadicshippedYellow Green completes a triad with #cdeafe — 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 #cdeafe in 21 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Alaska Airlines's brand system put Blue beside #cdeafe, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #cdeafe
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #cdeafe as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.25:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.8:1 | 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 #cdeafe as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#cdeafe reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #cdeafe and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/cdeafe-9cafc4-df4e5a-1f222d-e9f1f0?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