Color
#9bb2ca
#9bb2cargb(155, 178, 202)hsl(211, 31%, 70%)oklch(0.754 0.043 249.5)Colors that go with #9bb2ca
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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #9bb2ca: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sand #c2b280
complementaryshippedSand sits directly opposite #9bb2ca 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 #9bb2ca in 4 real palettes, including Blueprint and NBA's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #9bb2ca in 4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Spotify's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #9bb2ca in 4 real palettes, including Estate and Garden Wedding, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #9bb2ca in 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange is paired with #9bb2ca in 4 real palettes, including PayPal's brand system and Ahrefs's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDeep Sky Blue is paired with #9bb2ca in 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #9bb2ca
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9bb2ca as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.18:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.61:1 | 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 #9bb2ca as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#9bb2ca reads as cool, muted, light. 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 #9bb2ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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