Color

#9bcac5

#9bcac5
hex#9bcac5
rgbrgb(155, 202, 197)
hslhsl(174, 31%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.804 0.05 188.1)
Closest name: Continental Waters (#98c6cb)Relative luminance 0.5324

Colors that go with #9bcac5

Charcoal, Lilac 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 #9bcac5

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ca9ba0

#9bcaae · #9bb7ca

#c59bca · #cac59b

Split-complementary

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#ca9bb7 · #caae9b

#ae9bca · #ca9ba0 · #b7ca9b

Contrast

#9bcac5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #437f79 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #315e59 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4f4f4f (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #333333 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
11.65:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9bcac5 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

#9bcac5 reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9bcac5
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 #9bcac5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9bcac5-a2bebe-d459a1-1f292d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md