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
#ddf9f5
#ddf9f5
hex
#ddf9f5rgb
rgb(221, 249, 245)hsl
hsl(171, 70%, 92%)oklch
oklch(0.961 0.03 186.3)Closest name: Calm Waters (#e7fafa)Relative luminance 0.8972
Colors that go with #ddf9f5
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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #ddf9f5 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Alaska Airlines's brand system put Blue beside #ddf9f5, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #ddf9f5 in 12 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Estate and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #ddf9f5, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Typewriter and Velvet put Brown beside #ddf9f5, as the accent.
Burgundy #800020
shipped5 real palettes, including Candlelight and Heinz's brand system put Burgundy beside #ddf9f5, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ddf9f5 in 8 real palettes, including Coastal and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #ddf9f5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ddf9f5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.11:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 18.94:1 | 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 #ddf9f5 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
#ddf9f5 reads as vivid, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ddf9f5
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 #ddf9f5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ddf9f5-a2bebd-d459a7-1f292d-e9f1ec?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