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
#ced4ee
#ced4ee
hex
#ced4eergb
rgb(206, 212, 238)hsl
hsl(229, 48%, 87%)oklch
oklch(0.873 0.036 275.3)Closest name: Frozen Periwinkle (#c9d1ef)Relative luminance 0.6638
Colors that go with #ced4ee
Charcoal, Lilac and Sandy Brown 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 #ced4ee: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Lilac #c8a2c8
analogousshippedLilac is #ced4ee's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sandy Brown #f4a460
split-complementshippedSandy Brown is a split-complement of #ced4ee: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Khaki #bdb76b
complementaryshippedDark Khaki sits directly opposite #ced4ee on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ced4ee in 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Salesforce's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #ced4ee, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Velvet and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #ced4ee, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ced4ee in 6 real palettes, including Velvet and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #ced4ee
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ced4ee as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.47:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.28:1 | 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 #ced4ee as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#ced4ee reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ced4ee
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 #ced4ee and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ced4ee-9c9fc4-df7e4e-231f2d-e9eef1?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