Color

#9bb8ca

#9bb8ca
hex#9bb8ca
rgbrgb(155, 184, 202)
hslhsl(203, 31%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.767 0.041 235.3)
Closest name: Aquatic (#99c1cc)Relative luminance 0.4551

Colors that go with #9bb8ca

Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Blue 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

Open in tool →

#caad9b

#9bcac5 · #9ba0ca

#ca9bb8 · #b8ca9b

Split-complementary

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#ca9ba0 · #cac59b

#c59bca · #caad9b · #a0ca9b

Contrast

#9bb8ca as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.08:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #4f7b96 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #3a5a6e as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.28:1)
Aaon black
10.1:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9bb8ca 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

#9bb8ca reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9bb8ca
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 #9bb8ca and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9bb8ca-9cb0c4-df4e5d-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md