Color
#9bb4bf
#9bb4bfrgb(155, 180, 191)hsl(198, 22%, 68%)oklch(0.755 0.032 226.2)Colors that go with #9bb4bf
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Blush Pink 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 #9bb4bf: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #9bb4bf on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #9bb4bf in 4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Rain Garden, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #9bb4bf in 4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #9bb4bf in 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #9bb4bf in 4 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Desert Road, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #9bb4bf in 5 real palettes, including First Snow and Open House, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #9bb4bf in 9 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Still Water, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #9bb4bf
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9bb4bf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.17:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.67:1 | 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 #9bb4bf as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #9bb4bf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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