Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Color
#9ad3ea
#9ad3ea
hex
#9ad3eargb
rgb(154, 211, 234)hsl
hsl(197, 66%, 76%)oklch
oklch(0.836 0.067 224.9)Closest name: Sky Blue (#87ceeb)Relative luminance 0.594
Colors that go with #9ad3ea
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Crimson 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 #9ad3ea: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #9ad3ea on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #9ad3ea in 5 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #9ad3ea: 7 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9ad3ea: 4 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and UEFA's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Telehealth and Blue Mono put Midnight Blue beside #9ad3ea, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #9ad3ea — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #9ad3ea: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #9ad3ea
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9ad3ea as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.63:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.88:1 | 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 #9ad3ea 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
Fonts for this mood
#9ad3ea reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9ad3ea
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 #9ad3ea and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9ad3ea-9cb4c4-df4e6b-1f232d-e9f1ef?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