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
#d2efedrgb(210, 239, 237)hsl(176, 48%, 88%)oklch(0.931 0.03 191.6)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 #d2efed: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Lilac is a split-complement of #d2efed: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sand completes a triad with #d2efed — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sky Blue is #d2efed'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 #d2efed 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 #d2efed 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 #d2efed, as the accent.
Blue Violet is paired with #d2efed in 11 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
| #d2efed as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.21:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.31:1 | 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 #d2efed as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#d2efed 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 #d2efed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/d2efed-a2bdbe-d4599d-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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