Color

#9cbab7

#9cbab7
hex#9cbab7
rgbrgb(156, 186, 183)
hslhsl(174, 18%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.766 0.033 189.1)
Closest name: Cool (#96b3b3)Relative luminance 0.456

Colors that go with #9cbab7

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.

Real palettes that use #9cbab7

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ba9c9f

#9cbaa8 · #9caeba

#b79cba · #bab79c

Split-complementary

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#ba9cae · #baa89c

#a89cba · #ba9c9f · #aeba9c

Contrast

#9cbab7 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.07:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #567b78 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #415d5a as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
10.12:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9cbab7 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9cbab7
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #9cbab7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9cbab7-a2bebe-d459a1-1f292d-e9f1ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md