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
#d9f8fdrgb(217, 248, 253)hsl(188, 90%, 92%)oklch(0.958 0.033 208.4)Charcoal, Dark Orange and Deep Sky 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.
Charcoal is the text near-black for #d9f8fd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Orange is a split-complement of #d9f8fd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Deep Sky Blue is #d9f8fd'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 #d9f8fd — 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 #d9f8fd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber is paired with #d9f8fd in 21 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent.
47 real palettes, including Alaska Airlines's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #d9f8fd, as the accent.
Blue Violet is paired with #d9f8fd in 12 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
| #d9f8fd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.12:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 18.8:1 | 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 #d9f8fd as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#d9f8fd 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 #d9f8fd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/d9f8fd-a2b7be-df4e81-1f252d-e9f1ee?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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