First Snow
Open in tool →Ice blue on snow-white with a deep navy — the quietest winter palette; everything is a tint of one cold hue.
Color
#96a8ca
#96a8ca
hex
#96a8cargb
rgb(150, 168, 202)hsl
hsl(219, 33%, 69%)oklch
oklch(0.729 0.054 263.1)Closest name: Birdie Num Num (#89acda)Relative luminance 0.3875
Colors that go with #96a8ca
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Emerald Green 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 #96a8ca: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #96a8ca's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Emerald Green #50c878
triadicshippedEmerald Green completes a triad with #96a8ca — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sand #c2b280
complementaryshippedSand sits directly opposite #96a8ca on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #96a8ca in 4 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the lead colour.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #96a8ca, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #96a8ca in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #96a8ca in 4 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and PayPal's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #96a8ca
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #96a8ca as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.4:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.75:1 | 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 #96a8ca 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #96a8ca
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 #96a8ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/96a8ca-9ca5c4-df664e-211f2d-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