Color

#9bcac7

#9bcac7
hex#9bcac7
rgbrgb(155, 202, 199)
hslhsl(176, 31%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.805 0.049 191.3)
Closest name: Continental Waters (#98c6cb)Relative luminance 0.5333

Colors that go with #9bcac7

Charcoal, Dark Salmon 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 #9bcac7

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ca9b9e

#9bcaaf · #9bb6ca

#c79bca · #cac79b

Split-complementary

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#ca9bb6 · #caaf9b

#af9bca · #ca9b9e · #b6ca9b

Contrast

#9bcac7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #437f7b as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #315e5b as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4f4f4f (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #333333 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
11.67:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9bcac7 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

#9bcac7 reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9bcac7
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 #9bcac7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9bcac7-a2bdbe-d4599d-1f282d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md