Color

#9bb4bb

#9bb4bb
hex#9bb4bb
rgbrgb(155, 180, 187)
hslhsl(193, 19%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.753 0.029 216.5)
Closest name: Cool (#96b3b3)Relative luminance 0.432

Colors that go with #9bb4bb

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Champagne 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bba29b

#9bbbb2 · #9ba4bb

#bb9bb4 · #b4bb9b

Split-complementary

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#bb9ba4 · #bbb29b

#b29bbb · #bba29b · #a4bb9b

Contrast

#9bb4bb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.18:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #597982 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #445d64 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
9.64:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9bb4bb 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 #9bb4bb
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 #9bb4bb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9bb4bb-a2b5be-df4e75-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md