Ink & Paper
Open in tool →Two greys and one ink-blue link color: the palette of a well-set book page.
Named color
#edfcfbrgb(237, 252, 251)hsl(176, 71%, 96%)oklch(0.98 0.016 192.1)Cold White on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the 22 public brands that use it and the palettes it appears in.
Charcoal, Amber and 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.
Amber is paired with Cold White in 21 real palettes, including Beach Hut and Heatwave, as the supporting colour.
47 real palettes, including Alaska Airlines's brand system and Cargo's brand system put Blue beside Cold White, as the accent.
Blue Violet is paired with Cold White in 12 real palettes, including ClickUp's brand system and Fly.io's brand system, as the lead colour.
7 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside Cold White, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Typewriter put Brown beside Cold White, as the supporting colour.
5 real palettes, including Candlelight and Heinz's brand system put Burgundy beside Cold White, as the lead colour.
Burlywood is paired with Cold White in 8 real palettes, including Coastal and Polaroid, as the accent.
| Cold White as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.05:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 19.92:1 | 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 Cold White as the background.
Two greys and one ink-blue link color: the palette of a well-set book page.
A sober docs palette: one blue for interactive, one green for success, zinc greys for everything else.
Slate on slate with a single blue — the productivity-app look where the interface disappears behind the work.
Teal reads clinical without the coldness of pure blue; the coral accent adds warmth for reassurance moments.
Black, gold and one deep red — the prestige cosmetics counter: all restraint and a single lipstick.
Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.
Glacier blue with a safety-orange accent: technical outdoor gear, not lifestyle.
Sea-teal, sky and sand — bright without shouting; works for travel, wellness, and anything near water.
Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.
Laser green, violet and cyan — the synthwave/gaming set; keep the type near-white and let one neon own each screen.
Sea blue with sun-bleached yellow and a coral — striped-canvas summer, softened so it works on a screen.
Ice blue on snow-white with a deep navy — the quietest winter palette; everything is a tint of one cold hue.
Three blues from ice to deep water on a pale surface — a monochromatic winter set with real depth.
Navy and frost with one ember red — the classic cold-with-a-warm-accent structure, borrowed from a thousand ski posters.
Fresh green, buttercup and a wildflower pink — spring at full saturation; the leaf-dark text does the anchoring.
Wet-leaf teal and moss with a soft peach — an overcast spring, calmer than the bright version and better for long reading.
Cyan and mid-blue on abyss navy with a foam highlight — the ocean at depth; the darker the surface, the brighter the water.
Sea-green and slate with a coral — a literal tide pool: two cool tones, one warm creature.
Steel blue and haze with a buoy orange on a pale grey — the maritime palette every port town uses for a reason.
Deep green and new-leaf mint with a bark-pink accent — a forest that reads calm rather than camo.
Five greys, no hue — the true monochrome; the accent is a lighter grey, so hierarchy comes from weight and size alone.
One blue at four lightnesses — monochromatic in the colour-theory sense; the deep step is the text, the pale step the surface tint.
Deep sapphire and gold with a teal — old-money jewel tones on an ivory ground; heraldic without a crest.
Stone greys with a faint warmth — Tailwind's stone scale used as a whole palette: interfaces that want to disappear.
Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Dusty blue and mist with a nude accent — the quiet wedding palette; nothing here competes with a photograph.
Cold White reads as vivid, light, clean. 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 #edfcfb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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