Mint Chip
Open in tool →Mint and celadon with a peach accent — fresh without being clinical; the deep green text keeps it grounded.
Color
#9bd9cd
#9bd9cd
hex
#9bd9cdrgb
rgb(155, 217, 205)hsl
hsl(168, 45%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.84 0.065 181.3)Closest name: Bambino (#8edacc)Relative luminance 0.61
Colors that go with #9bd9cd
Charcoal, Lilac and Midnight 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 #9bd9cd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #9bd9cd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #9bd9cd in 5 real palettes, including First Snow and Blue Mono, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
shippedPeru is paired with #9bd9cd in 4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #9bd9cd in 4 real palettes, including Stone and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #9bd9cd in 10 real palettes, including Still Water and Dusty Blue, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #9bd9cd in 4 real palettes, including Mint Chip and Still Water, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #9bd9cd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9bd9cd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.59:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.2:1 | 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 #9bd9cd 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
Fonts for this mood
#9bd9cd reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9bd9cd
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 #9bd9cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9bd9cd-a2bebc-d459ad-1f2a2d-e9f1ec?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