Deep Water
Open in tool →Cyan and mid-blue on abyss navy with a foam highlight — the ocean at depth; the darker the surface, the brighter the water.
Color
#d1efeergb(209, 239, 238)hsl(178, 48%, 88%)oklch(0.93 0.031 194.2)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 is the text near-black for #d1efee: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Lilac is a split-complement of #d1efee: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sand completes a triad with #d1efee — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sky Blue is #d1efee's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dark Salmon sits directly opposite #d1efee on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber is paired with #d1efee in 17 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent.
37 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Alaska Airlines's brand system put Blue beside #d1efee, as the accent.
Blue Violet is paired with #d1efee in 11 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
| #d1efee as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.21:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.29:1 | 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 #d1efee as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#d1efee reads as 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 #d1efee and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/d1efee-a2bcbe-d45999-1f282d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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