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
#9baacfrgb(155, 170, 207)hsl(223, 35%, 71%)oklch(0.739 0.056 267.7)Charcoal, Sand and Amber 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 is the text near-black for #9baacf: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sand sits directly opposite #9baacf on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber is paired with #9baacf in 4 real palettes, including NBA's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the lead colour.
4 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #9baacf, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Copper with #9baacf: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Dark Orange shows up next to #9baacf in 4 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and PayPal's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #9baacf: 4 real palettes, including Calm's brand system and Max's brand system, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #9baacf: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
| #9baacf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.32:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.04:1 | 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 #9baacf as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#9baacf reads as cool, light, clean. 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 #9baacf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/9baacf-9ca3c4-df704e-211f2d-e9eff1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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