Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#9cbaaa
#9cbaaa
hex
#9cbaaargb
rgb(156, 186, 170)hsl
hsl(148, 18%, 67%)oklch
oklch(0.762 0.04 162.1)Closest name: Copper Patina (#9db4a0)Relative luminance 0.4509
Colors that go with #9cbaaa
Charcoal, Blue and Champagne 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 #9cbaaa: 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 #9cbaaa, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #9cbaaa, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #9cbaaa: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #9cbaaa in 5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Tiffany & Co.'s brand system, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #9cbaaa in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9cbaaa: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryLilac sits directly opposite #9cbaaa on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #9cbaaa
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9cbaaa as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.1:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.02:1 | 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 #9cbaaa 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 #9cbaaa
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 #9cbaaa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9cbaaa-a2beb2-d259d4-1f2d2c-eaf1e9?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