Color
#9aaffe
#9aaffergb(154, 175, 254)hsl(227, 98%, 80%)oklch(0.769 0.116 272.1)Colors that go with #9aaffe
Charcoal, Goldenrod and Midnight 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 #9aaffe: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Goldenrod #daa520
complementaryshippedGoldenrod sits directly opposite #9aaffe on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #9aaffe in 6 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Telehealth, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Periwinkle #ccccff
shippedPeriwinkle is paired with #9aaffe in 4 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and Calendly's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #9aaffe in 5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Still Water, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9aaffe in 7 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Cursor's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
split-complementshippedDark Orange is a split-complement of #9aaffe: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #9aaffe in 3 real palettes, including Spotify's brand system and Warp's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #9aaffe
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9aaffe as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.11:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.94:1 | 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 #9aaffe 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
#9aaffe 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 #9aaffe and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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