Color
#9abec6
#9abec6rgb(154, 190, 198)hsl(191, 28%, 69%)oklch(0.778 0.04 212.7)Colors that go with #9abec6
Charcoal, Dark Salmon 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 for #9abec6: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #9abec6 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #9abec6 in 4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Warp's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #9abec6 in 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #9abec6 in 7 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #9abec6 in 5 real palettes, including Open House and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #9abec6 in 6 real palettes, including First Snow and Lavender Milk, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #9abec6 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #9abec6
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9abec6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.99:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.55:1 | 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 #9abec6 as the background.
Brands using this color
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 #9abec6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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