Nursery
Open in tool →Pastel coral, sky and butter — soft enough for a newborn brand, with warm brown text instead of harsh black.
Color
#9bd5ed
#9bd5ed
hex
#9bd5edrgb
rgb(155, 213, 237)hsl
hsl(198, 69%, 77%)oklch
oklch(0.841 0.068 225.5)Closest name: Ariel (#aed7ea)Relative luminance 0.6067
Colors that go with #9bd5ed
Charcoal, Dark Salmon and Deep Sky 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 #9bd5ed: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
complementaryshippedDark Salmon sits directly opposite #9bd5ed on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #9bd5ed: 7 real palettes, including Salesforce's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9bd5ed: 4 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and UEFA's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped6 real palettes, including Blue Mono and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #9bd5ed, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #9bd5ed — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #9bd5ed: 4 real palettes, including Stone and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped8 real palettes, including Dusty Blue and Still Water put Slate Gray beside #9bd5ed, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #9bd5ed
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9bd5ed as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.6:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.13:1 | 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 #9bd5ed as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Macaron
Open in tool →Rose, sky and pistachio at patisserie strength — the pastel trio, with a plum-grey text colour so it never washes out.
Pastel Pop
Open in tool →Pastels pushed to the saturated end — pink, sky and lemon — for brands that want soft AND loud.
Fonts for this mood
#9bd5ed reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9bd5ed
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 #9bd5ed and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9bd5ed-9cb3c4-df4e69-1f232d-e9f1f0?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