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
#ced9ed
#ced9ed
hex
#ced9edrgb
rgb(206, 217, 237)hsl
hsl(219, 46%, 87%)oklch
oklch(0.883 0.03 262.5)Closest name: Fly a Kite (#c8daf5)Relative luminance 0.6886
Colors that go with #ced9ed
Charcoal, Emerald Green and Lilac 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 #ced9ed: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Emerald Green #50c878
triadicshippedEmerald Green completes a triad with #ced9ed — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Lilac #c8a2c8
analogousshippedLilac is #ced9ed's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sand #c2b280
complementaryshippedSand sits directly opposite #ced9ed 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 #ced9ed in 8 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #ced9ed in 5 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Binance's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with #ced9ed in 4 real palettes, including Velvet and Woodsmoke, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ced9ed in 6 real palettes, including Velvet and Coffee Bar, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #ced9ed
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ced9ed as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.42:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.77:1 | 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 #ced9ed as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#ced9ed reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ced9ed
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 #ced9ed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ced9ed-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