Frost & Ember
Open in tool →Navy and frost with one ember red — the classic cold-with-a-warm-accent structure, borrowed from a thousand ski posters.
Color
#9ad8db
#9ad8db
hex
#9ad8dbrgb
rgb(154, 216, 219)hsl
hsl(183, 47%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.841 0.063 199.8)Closest name: Crystal (#a7d8de)Relative luminance 0.611
Colors that go with #9ad8db
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Cornflower 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 #9ad8db: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #9ad8db on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #9ad8db: 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #9ad8db 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 #9ad8db: 8 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9ad8db: 4 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and UEFA's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #9ad8db: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including First Snow and Blue Mono put Midnight Blue beside #9ad8db, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #9ad8db
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9ad8db as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.59:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.22:1 | 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 #9ad8db 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
#9ad8db reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9ad8db
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 #9ad8db and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9ad8db-a2b9be-d4598e-1f262d-e9f1ee?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