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
#9ba5ca
#9ba5ca
hex
#9ba5cargb
rgb(155, 165, 202)hsl
hsl(227, 31%, 70%)oklch
oklch(0.727 0.055 273.1)Closest name: Imperial Lilac (#a99fcf)Relative luminance 0.3814
Colors that go with #9ba5ca
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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #9ba5ca: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
analogousshippedDeep Sky Blue is #9ba5ca's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sand #c2b280
complementaryshippedSand sits directly opposite #9ba5ca on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #9ba5ca in 4 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and NBA's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #9ba5ca in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange shows up next to #9ba5ca in 4 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Learning App, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #9ba5ca: 4 real palettes, including Patreon's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #9ba5ca in 4 real palettes, including Supabase's brand system and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #9ba5ca
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9ba5ca as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.43:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.63:1 | 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 #9ba5ca 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
#9ba5ca reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9ba5ca
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 #9ba5ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9ba5ca-9ca0c4-df7a4e-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