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
#d2f5ffrgb(210, 245, 255)hsl(193, 100%, 91%)oklch(0.948 0.039 216.9)Charcoal, Dark Orange and Dark Turquoise 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 #d2f5ff: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Orange is a split-complement of #d2f5ff: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Turquoise is #d2f5ff's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Deep Sky Blue is #d2f5ff's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Goldenrod completes a triad with #d2f5ff — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Light Coral is a split-complement of #d2f5ff: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber is paired with #d2f5ff in 17 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent.
39 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Alaska Airlines's brand system put Blue beside #d2f5ff, as the accent.
| #d2f5ff as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.15:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 18.25:1 | 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 #d2f5ff as the background.
#d2f5ff reads as cool, vivid, light. 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 #d2f5ff and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/d2f5ff-a2b5be-df4e75-1f242d-e9f1ef?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