Polaroid
Open in tool →Washed coral, faded aqua and a mustard — the 1970s film look, desaturated so it feels found rather than designed.
Color
#9cb4aa
#9cb4aa
hex
#9cb4aargb
rgb(156, 180, 170)hsl
hsl(155, 14%, 66%)oklch
oklch(0.749 0.03 168.5)Closest name: Copper Patina (#9db4a0)Relative luminance 0.4261
Colors that go with #9cb4aa
Charcoal, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #9cb4aa: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #9cb4aa, as the accent.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #9cb4aa, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #9cb4aa in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #9cb4aa, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #9cb4aa: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Riverbed, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #9cb4aa in 5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the accent.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
split-complementshippedDark Salmon is a split-complement of #9cb4aa: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #9cb4aa
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9cb4aa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.21:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.52:1 | 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 #9cb4aa 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9cb4aa
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 #9cb4aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9cb4aa-a2beb6-d459c8-1f2d2d-e9f1ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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