Color

#9baeb0

#9baeb0
hex#9baeb0
rgbrgb(155, 174, 176)
hslhsl(186, 12%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.737 0.021 204.4)
Closest name: Cool (#96b3b3)Relative luminance 0.4038

Colors that go with #9baeb0

Charcoal, Blue and Burlywood 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.

Real palettes that use #9baeb0

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b09d9b

#9bb0a8 · #9ba4b0

#b09bae · #aeb09b

Split-complementary

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#b09ba4 · #b0a89b

#a89bb0 · #b09d9b · #a4b09b

Contrast

#9baeb0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.31:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #637b7e as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #4a5c5e as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.12:1)
Aaon black
9.08:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9baeb0 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9baeb0
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #9baeb0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9baeb0-a2b8be-df4e86-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md