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
#9aa5c6rgb(154, 165, 198)hsl(225, 28%, 69%)oklch(0.725 0.05 270.6)Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Sand 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 #9aa5c6: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue is #9aa5c6's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sand sits directly opposite #9aa5c6 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber is paired with #9aa5c6 in 4 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and NBA's brand system, as the supporting colour.
4 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #9aa5c6, as the accent.
Burlywood is paired with #9aa5c6 in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Copper with #9aa5c6: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Dark Orange shows up next to #9aa5c6 in 4 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Elastic's brand system, as the lead colour.
| #9aa5c6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.45:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.57:1 | 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 #9aa5c6 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #9aa5c6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/9aa5c6-9ca1c4-df754e-221f2d-e9eff1?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