Color

#9bb8bb

#9bb8bb
hex#9bb8bb
rgbrgb(155, 184, 187)
hslhsl(186, 19%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.762 0.032 204.2)
Closest name: Cool (#96b3b3)Relative luminance 0.4484

Colors that go with #9bb8bb

Charcoal, Dark Salmon 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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#bb9e9b

#9bbbae · #9ba8bb

#bb9bb8 · #b8bb9b

Split-complementary

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#bb9ba8 · #bbae9b

#ae9bbb · #bb9e9b · #a8bb9b

Contrast

#9bb8bb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.11:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #577b7f as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #405b5e as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.18:1)
Aaon black
9.97:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9bb8bb 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 #9bb8bb
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 #9bb8bb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9bb8bb-a2b8be-df4e86-1f262d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md