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
#dbf8ffrgb(219, 248, 255)hsl(192, 100%, 93%)oklch(0.96 0.032 213.9)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 #dbf8ff: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Orange is a split-complement of #dbf8ff: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Turquoise is #dbf8ff'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 #dbf8ff'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 #dbf8ff — 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 #dbf8ff: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber is paired with #dbf8ff in 17 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue is paired with #dbf8ff in 37 real palettes, including Alaska Airlines's brand system and Dropbox's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
| #dbf8ff as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.11:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 18.88:1 | 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 #dbf8ff as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#dbf8ff 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 #dbf8ff and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/dbf8ff-a2b5be-df4e77-1f242d-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