Blueprint
Open in tool →Cyan and indigo on navy is the developer-tool look; amber is the only warm note, so it always reads as 'attention'.
Color
#dae8fc
#dae8fc
hex
#dae8fcrgb
rgb(218, 232, 252)hsl
hsl(215, 85%, 92%)oklch
oklch(0.927 0.031 257.2)Closest name: Celestial Cathedral (#daeaf6)Relative luminance 0.7965
Colors that go with #dae8fc
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Goldenrod 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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #dae8fc: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #dae8fc's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Goldenrod #daa520
complementaryshippedGoldenrod sits directly opposite #dae8fc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Light Coral #f08080
triadicshippedLight Coral completes a triad with #dae8fc — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Lilac #c8a2c8
analogousshippedLilac is #dae8fc's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #dae8fc in 17 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped37 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #dae8fc, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #dae8fc in 11 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #dae8fc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #dae8fc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.24:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.93:1 | 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 #dae8fc as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#dae8fc reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #dae8fc
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #dae8fc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/dae8fc-9ca8c4-df5d4e-201f2d-e9f0f1?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