Still Water
Open in tool →Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Color
#9bc9d4
#9bc9d4
hex
#9bc9d4rgb
rgb(155, 201, 212)hsl
hsl(192, 40%, 72%)oklch
oklch(0.807 0.051 214)Closest name: Continental Waters (#98c6cb)Relative luminance 0.535
Colors that go with #9bc9d4
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Crimson 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 #9bc9d4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #9bc9d4 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #9bc9d4 in 5 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #9bc9d4: 6 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Salesforce's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9bc9d4: 6 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and UEFA's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Telehealth and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #9bc9d4, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #9bc9d4 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #9bc9d4 in 4 real palettes, including Telehealth and 1password's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #9bc9d4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9bc9d4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.8:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.7:1 | 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 #9bc9d4 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#9bc9d4 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9bc9d4
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 #9bc9d4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9bc9d4-a2b5be-df4e77-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md