Color
#9cbaae
#9cbaaergb(156, 186, 174)hsl(156, 18%, 67%)oklch(0.763 0.037 169.2)Colors that go with #9cbaae
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 #9cbaae: 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 #9cbaae, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #9cbaae, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #9cbaae: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #9cbaae 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 #9cbaae in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9cbaae: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #9cbaae: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #9cbaae
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9cbaae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.09:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.05:1 | 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 #9cbaae as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #9cbaae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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