Color

#9bb0bb

#9bb0bb
hex#9bb0bb
rgbrgb(155, 176, 187)
hslhsl(201, 19%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.745 0.028 230.5)
Closest name: Cool (#96b3b3)Relative luminance 0.4161

Colors that go with #9bb0bb

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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 #9bb0bb

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bba69b

#9bbbb6 · #9ba0bb

#bb9bb0 · #b0bb9b

Split-complementary

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#bb9ba0 · #bbb69b

#b69bbb · #bba69b · #a0bb9b

Contrast

#9bb0bb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.25:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5d7989 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #465c67 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
9.32:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9bb0bb 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 #9bb0bb
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 #9bb0bb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9bb0bb-9cb1c4-df4e62-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md