Harbour
Open in tool →Steel blue and haze with a buoy orange on a pale grey — the maritime palette every port town uses for a reason.
Color
#9bbad4
#9bbad4
hex
#9bbad4rgb
rgb(155, 186, 212)hsl
hsl(207, 40%, 72%)oklch
oklch(0.775 0.05 243.8)Closest name: Blues White Shoes (#99badd)Relative luminance 0.4684
Colors that go with #9bbad4
Charcoal, Sand 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #9bbad4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sand #c2b280
complementaryshippedSand sits directly opposite #9bbad4 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Canva's brand system put Blue beside #9bbad4, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #9bbad4: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #9bbad4 in 5 real palettes, including JBL's brand system and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #9bbad4: 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9bbad4: 6 real palettes, including Open House and Coca-Cola's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #9bbad4: 4 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Patreon's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #9bbad4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9bbad4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.03:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.37:1 | 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 #9bbad4 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#9bbad4 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9bbad4
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #9bbad4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9bbad4-9cadc4-df4e53-1f212d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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