Color
#959bda
#959bdargb(149, 155, 218)hsl(235, 48%, 72%)oklch(0.709 0.092 279.6)Colors that go with #959bda
Charcoal, Amber 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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #959bda: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #959bda in 5 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #959bda: 4 real palettes, including Calm's brand system and Blueprint, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #959bda: 6 real palettes, including Coca-Cola's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #959bda: 5 real palettes, including Venmo's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped10 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House put Midnight Blue beside #959bda, as the text colour against it.
Periwinkle #ccccff
shippedPeriwinkle shows up next to #959bda in 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Calendly's brand system, as the accent.
Sand #c2b280
complementarySand sits directly opposite #959bda on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #959bda as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.63:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.98:1 | 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 #959bda as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#959bda reads as cool, light, clean. 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 #959bda and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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