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
#dbf5fbrgb(219, 245, 251)hsl(191, 80%, 92%)oklch(0.953 0.028 213.2)Charcoal, Amber and 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 that reads cleanly against #dbf5fb without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber is paired with #dbf5fb 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 #dbf5fb, as the accent.
Blue Violet is paired with #dbf5fb in 11 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
7 real palettes, including Estate and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #dbf5fb, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including Typewriter and Velvet put Brown beside #dbf5fb, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Candlelight and Heinz's brand system put Burgundy beside #dbf5fb, as the lead colour.
Burlywood is paired with #dbf5fb in 7 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Coastal, as the lead colour.
| #dbf5fb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.14:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 18.47:1 | 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 #dbf5fb as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#dbf5fb 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 #dbf5fb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/dbf5fb-a2b6be-df4e7a-1f252d-e9f1ef?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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