Color

#9bbbb6

#9bbbb6
hex#9bbbb6
rgbrgb(155, 187, 182)
hslhsl(171, 19%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.767 0.035 184.9)
Closest name: Cool (#96b3b3)Relative luminance 0.4589

Colors that go with #9bbbb6

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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.

Real palettes that use #9bbbb6

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bb9ba0

#9bbba6 · #9bb0bb

#b69bbb · #bbb69b

Split-complementary

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#bb9bb0 · #bba69b

#a69bbb · #bb9ba0 · #b0bb9b

Contrast

#9bbbb6 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.06:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #557c76 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #405e5a as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
10.18:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9bbbb6 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 #9bbbb6
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 #9bbbb6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9bbbb6-a2bebd-d459a7-1f292d-e9f1ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md